Gamzee, luckily, is pretty ignorant on the ways of the animal kingdom. Or maybe not luckily, depending on how much Tavros would like an eyebrow-waggling joke about snakes getting swallowed by badgers.

"Yeah, but I would, and you can't be playing yourself down to our wriggler baby," the Slytherin explains to his friend matter-of-factly. He looks down again when Tavros looks up, blinking, eyebrows raised and a puzzled half-smile on his face. For all that they spent a week attached at the lips, Gamzee's not used to the Hufflepuff wanting kisses from him, and the hint in the way the smaller boy's face is upturned just sails right over his head.