[There's a hiss and his hand comes up to rub his arm???] Come on! [He's scowling for all of three seconds before he returns to the subject at hand.] If it makes you feel better, mine went off when I was doing Founder's Day shopping and a hundred dollars of groceries ran away from me and almost crashed into my car. Not fun.

[Daisies. They can both stall for a moment since he's not even sure he wants to ask. But he wants to ask? He has to ask and even her going along with the Peter-Wendy nicknames isn't enough for him not to freak a little.]

...what about in the south of the US? Think they could live there? [He'll just fill in "blue" for the color since...Thalia's eyes are blue. So. You know.]