"Sealing the deal, as it were?" That sort of made sense. For someone more mired in the culture than he was, Shannon figured it must have been easier for Eli to get into the idea of making this a regular thing if they filled out all the trappings of something more official with someone less clueless. His head tipped and he fluttered his eyelashes to make a point at that last part. "My eyes are definitely not one of my more useful assets, you know."

Eli restraining his hands wasn't exactly where Shannon imagined all this going, and he felt an automatic instinct to fight against it. His spine stiffened in preparation. It took quite a bit of will to force himself to relax, to let go of all that because Eli was making a good point. Letting his head dip forward, he flexed his hands experimentally against the hold Eli had them in and said, "Sorry. Go ahead."