[She does look slightly irritated by his laughing at her, but she likes Dutch enough not to get too upset about it or sock him in the nose. And the words he follows up with do soothe the slight ding to her ego.
There's also the matter that he doesn't know what she is since she's not saying. Partly because she does fear that if she were to explain he might go back on his offer or he thought her crazy. What he might do if he did discover the truth and did believe it? She's no idea. How people reacted to that sort of thing is hard to predict.]
Well, then I'll do my best to live up to your expectations, Mr. Van Der Linde.
[ooc: want to close this one out and then we can do some kind of follow-up in the future? or another meme somewhere down the line? I'm really enjoying this. <3 ]
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There's also the matter that he doesn't know what she is since she's not saying. Partly because she does fear that if she were to explain he might go back on his offer or he thought her crazy. What he might do if he did discover the truth and did believe it? She's no idea. How people reacted to that sort of thing is hard to predict.]
Well, then I'll do my best to live up to your expectations, Mr. Van Der Linde.
[ooc: want to close this one out and then we can do some kind of follow-up in the future? or another meme somewhere down the line? I'm really enjoying this. <3 ]