Yes, this is definitely easier than playing with Red. Even with her temporary blindness, Aconite feels fairly confident that she can win. Batting turns to gentle pushing and shoving, trying to see if she can gain any ground with him.

Meanwhile, Shura feels much less confident with Strange. It's mostly just annoyance and anger right now, and he just keeps saying crap and being a horrible windbag. She supposes she should be glad he isn't making innuendo with this.

"Bashful? You gotta be drunk if you're spoutin' that kind of crap off!" But she'll let herself be led. He better have an actual spare bed. She'd kill him if he let her sleep in his bed again.