[There's a line where charm begins to become unkindly flustering, and Paul judges that he's toed up to it. So he relents a little, in a way that shouldn't seem like relenting at all, merely an addition of faint shyness under his bright-eyed enthusiasm.]
They're not really mine to lend out. I could ask, if you'd like.
[He thinks she's likely not serious, so he keeps his tone half-teasing, but if she means it, he would ask. It's good for the skeletons to get into the community.]
But yes, please. Lead on. I put myself in your hands.
[Not literally, at least not yet, but he will follow where she goes and stands as she tells him. He's a good student of things like this.]
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They're not really mine to lend out. I could ask, if you'd like.
[He thinks she's likely not serious, so he keeps his tone half-teasing, but if she means it, he would ask. It's good for the skeletons to get into the community.]
But yes, please. Lead on. I put myself in your hands.
[Not literally, at least not yet, but he will follow where she goes and stands as she tells him. He's a good student of things like this.]