"What's she think of him?"

"He deserves his reputation for genius and has poor social skills so you can assume that if he says something hurtful it was probably not intended that way."

"He doesn't have poor social skills it's that most people suck."

"Fair."

"He's fine around people who don't."

"Marille hasn't had any trouble, so I have no evidence against that."

"Good."

"Marille's not a terrible person, she's just--more in the habit of communicating with them on their level?"

"Wasn't accusing her of being one, she seems okay. But I sort of default to expecting bad news."

"Fair enough."

"Why d'you want to travel?"

"Because I like you and I like trying new things and the intersection seems obvious?"

"Okay. Did you have a 'where' in mind?"

"Not really."

"I've been thinking of going down south again, it's pretty there."

"They have dinosaurs there, right? I don't think I've actually seen those."

"Really? What have you been doing with your life, dinosaurs are excellent. I adopted one when I was twenty."

"What, really?"

"My parents made me give her back, they were worried she'd eat Moryo."

"Aww."

"I was pretty upset about it."

"I'm sorry," she says sympathetically.

"It's fine."

"Well, you've got Huan now."

"Doesn't even nibble my little brothers."