Shannon huffed, laughter coming through in the tone. It had been a long and hard road to get Eli to open back up again; as much as he seemed more settled nowadays, Shannon knew there were still plenty of roadblocks still ahead of them. With how seriously he took this D/s thing, there was no doubt in Shannon's mind it wouldn't have come up at all if Michelle hadn't been joking around only a few weeks ago. "We weren't."

"Well... I guess so. Who else would?" It was almost rhetorical, but part of it was genuine enough. Matheus seemed to know more about this than he did and they were on the subject, anyway.