[He huffs and buries his face on the top of her head.] Its a lot harder to avoid setting my bed on fire when you work me up.

[And yet a few more candles flicker to life with the petname.]

Hm, it encourages people to time tings better. You either need to be so far ahead you can recover before you're overtaken, or know how to be in second without overtaking first until you can win.