"As my queen commands, then," Jessica said, trying for serious and failing miserably, face crinkling around her attempt to keep her lips out of a smile. She did a better job on the delivery, though, she thought it was the precise right level of playful, even as some aspects of the phrasing might have touched on the fringes of ideas she was dancing around.

Or lying in one place staring at, which did make the dancing harder.

"Really, ordering less work, that's unconventional royalty. Out of the box thinking. You're clearly very good at it."