"Oh, it's not you, not at all!" she assured him far too quickly, putting a hand on the inside of his elbow and trying that charming grin on for a second again. "You're a lovely, delightful man with a great brain on you and you...uhm...you're creative and inventive and concerned about my boyfriend, which I totally, TOTALLY appreciate, and you don't make me nervous, okay? Just...the moon is really fucking weird and not at all what I expected and yes! That makes perfect sense. Death's Death City. I totally understand."


She couldn't remember the last time she'd been this jumpy.