"It is n-- whooa?!"

Right, that was something she'd forgotten about Zack: he didn't waste time. Rise very nearly fell backwards in her astonishment, but one arm instinctively wrapped around his neck and she used that to pull herself closer without strangling him in the process.

"Taking 'sweeping off your feet' to a new level, huh?" she quipped, but there were worse things than being piggybacked by a cute guy.