[A quickened pace with a quickened heartbeat which is just from the effort (and in some ways effortlessness) of the dance, clearly. It makes him have to look up that much more, but Loki's always been an unfairly tall bastard, and the relative coolness of their body next to his is a pleasant feeling. His own personal ice pack!

He thinks for a moment that he can't have told Loki about Kate, he barely just met Kate. But. Clearly he did. They share so much with each other.]

Flatterer. Kid only has an ego when she wants to look strong. She'll learn to take her hits on the chin and when she can let herself feel the deserved pride. [Like being called a world's greatest archer by the world's greatest archer/childhood hero. That's an ego boost that's deserved because it's true.] If there's any justice in the world, she won't turn out a thing like me. That might be my pride, eventually.