Well of course I knew it was an em-bellishment. "Calling out your lie" was but an instrument to jumpstart my response. I will do whatever it takes to make my answers gather the momentum they deserve. You know this.

So if I ever waste time starting my responses with a "once upon a time," just hire thugs of your own and tell them to end me. You know where to send them.

But anyway. That boiling kettle bit worries me a bit. What happens if someday I appear unnannounced on the perimeter and you mistake me for a foe? We should come up with a distinctive whistle or a badly-performed animal sound for us to do to each other and reveal our identity in the distance. You are hereby appointed head of the department. I await sample ideas over our encrypted communication channel.

P.S Yes, you do, and I will never tell you just how vast and potent my fondness of you has grown because of it. As much as I love them words, some things should not be crystallized inside them, for they're better expressed when left implied.