Hey, she's not going to assume. Appearances can be deceptive, can't they? And then you end up somewhere like this and he could be ten or three hundred or something like that. She tries to withhold her assumptions for that reason, if no other.

It's a good thing because she's in pretty excellent spirits and it really would only amount to her teasing. She can make an art of bad jokes, so it might be for the better that he's opted to relax about it all.

"Yeah? Where you from, in that case? Ah -- assuming you don't mind me asking. Don't want to pry too much more than I already have, after all."