Some serious willpower is expended in not grabbing Ferdie's school tie and pulling him down into a kiss when he reveals the other plastic eye. It's just one more in an endless sea of plastic eyes this week, but the sentiment behind it, while completely ridiculous, causes something to flutter in Ursula's chest in a not thoroughly unpleasant way. No one's going to believe her about her cold, black heart if this keeps up.

She opens her palm, holding it next to his, to reunite the two plastic eyes. "A souvenir of our time in the sugar trenches together," she agrees, and then she does press her lips against his, lightly, but maybe not as quickly as she should, because it's still a couple more days until they're free of head student pins and she doesn't want to wait.