Oh man, how does that affect things? She was just trying to trick him into calling her a friend for her own nefarious purposes. It makes her laugh, short and sudden.

"Gods, I don't know. I'm not sure. I'm not even supposed to hit on people, not that I haven't--I was just supposed to end up an eternal maiden goddess. Which kind of makes hitting on people a futile effort." And she suddenly remembers, "I shouldn't even be around men without a chaperone. Not that it had anything to do with this--you're a book right now and I don't know exactly how that counts for those rules."