"Or keep you away from touching me, I'd say," Sirius adds with a wider grin.

He doesn't miss the little gleam in Kieren's eye either and quickly pushes up to his feet, reaching for Kieren's hand in the process -- the one that isn't just recently mended. "It's a vegetable stew," he explains none too proudly. "With potatoes and carrots and onions and that sort of thing. Can't promise it'll taste any good, but I get points for trying, don't I?"