Sir, that's not what he meant and you damn well know it. But this walk at least is long enough that he's able to contemplate and not have to immediately answer. It's been quite some time since he's... really had to think about any of this sort of thing.

"And here I thought most tended to start out with that whole dating nonsense," he muses, sounding far too amused despite himself. "But that's a whole bunch of fluff, isn't it?"