[Venat lifts her free hand to her mouth. As ever, the gesture is pointless, hiding neither her smile nor her laughter.]

Wherefore comes the idea that you need ask? If you can imagine me ever answering that question in the negative, you've a more powerful imagination than anyone I have ever met by leaps and bounds.

[Silly, silly man. In fact, his question raises several of its own, but for once, Venat chooses to deal with none of them. They are just winding trails that likely lead nowhere; until she finds one wide enough worth following, far better to stay put where she is. It's quite pleasant here, as it happens.]