If some kind of terrifying Australian spider the size of her hand made its way up here, Annie was going to get hit with a hell of a cleaning fee for scorch marks.

"I can take some dumb snake," she replied as she tilted her head to press a soft kiss to his neck. (She was, of course, completely wrong about that.) "I also have kind of a present for you. Like, not a real birthday present, but I got something this morning that I know you want to see."

She had kind of thoroughly covered 'real' birthday presents, anyway.