It's overcast, which means James doesn't have to be all "careful" while walking around outside, so he can in fact just walk around outside! It's nice to do that every now and then. And then there are a couple of packages he's expecting so he might enjoy this lovely unsunny day to visit the Post Office, why not.
"You," she accuses, "are sneaky and clever, or lucky. Yes, okay, go on, use your cheating perfect memory to relay the entire tour to me."
He laughs and launches on the tour, slightly edited to make it more interesting for Yvette in particular.
She asks questions! And adds playfully sarcastic or wry commentary! Even if he can't answer all of her questions due to not being an actual tour guide, she clearly has fun.
She's a delight.
They can move on to other rooms in the castle, then. There are decorated bedrooms and dining halls and meeting rooms and a library and...
It's lovely! The castle is lovely, and having a private tour of it is kind of fun. She even tells him so.
"You know, I couldn't be this sarcastic and snarky in a more ordinary tour. People consider it kind of rude to interrupt and add in snide comments, though I don't... mean them in a mean way."
"You must, clearly. Else I will know that you feel positively about my... Hm. Actually, no, don't do that, that is a bad plan."
"Only when I earn it! No telling me what I want to hear just because I want to hear it, otherwise it misses the point."
Goodness, that's adorable. She sees no reason to stop holding his hand during the tour, because he is terribly cute and his delight is a wonder to behold.
After the conclusion of the tour, she asks, "Can humans kiss vampires safely?"
...he takes a couple of seconds to process that then goes on to tilt her down and kiss her deeply like they're in a movie.
She makes a surprised mphf sound, but... Yes, okay, this is admittedly rather cute and romantic. And... oh wow that is some kissing, she'd expected kissing something comparable to a mobile statue to be less fun. She is very pleased to be proven wrong, there. She supposes, vaguely, that he has practice.
Many, many years of practice.
Eventually he straightens her up and pulls away because he expects she might have opinions or the position might be comfortable or something.
She... actually needs a minute to blink very quickly and catch her breath and put her brain back together. Um. That. That was. Sure a first kiss. Yep. Wow. Um.
"Um," she says, because she vaguely feels like she should be clever and say something. "Good. Good job? At the kissing??"
She lets out a little self-conscious giggle. "Thanks," she snorts. Then she makes a face. "Hey, warn a girl before you, you." She waves a hand vaguely, lacking vocabulary. "Turn her brain to mush with, with incredibly... That. Thatness."
Truly, she is a marvel of eloquence and self expression.
"I'm afraid I did not understand enough of that to be able to properly warn girls in the future before I do whatever it is that I did."
"Liar," she accuses affectionately. "You know precisely what you were doing, you have practice."
... Then she pauses and makes a face and looks away. "... Damn, I suppose that means you were right. I am easy."