[He might punch her arm lightly, if they weren't both still wary of touch, if it didn't strike him as disrespectful. It's not that he cares about royalty, particularly, so much as that he cares about her royalty, the constitutive way formality has shaped both versions of his maybe-friend. He winks instead, mischevous and encouraging.]
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[He might punch her arm lightly, if they weren't both still wary of touch, if it didn't strike him as disrespectful. It's not that he cares about royalty, particularly, so much as that he cares about her royalty, the constitutive way formality has shaped both versions of his maybe-friend. He winks instead, mischevous and encouraging.]