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Dilan grins at her and says, "No."

"Right then. You're innocent." it was absolute honesty! "Bold and devious by turns maybe, but innocent." then she was smiling again.

It was just...easy to smile around Dilan?

Dilan laughs, "I feel so young!"

He's glad of that. He likes it when people smile.

"What's the point of skating in the park if you can't feel young?" she laughed back. "Though if it stops working we could think of something else to add to the youthful feel?"

She had no idea what but hey, they could. Maybe find other skaters and play crack the whip?

Dilan laughs at her a little and says, "It made you relax and smile. That was the point."

"Ah, additional good things are just a bonus?" she chuckled. It was touching in an utterly...soft...way. God, the boys would rag on her.

And she was not blushing. Or even thinking of blushing thank you. "Can't confirm the relaxed yet though. We have to make it back up the hill." she teased. The hill was slightly daunting.

"Pretty much." Dilan allows, "And we don't, actually. If we go back up to the first turn-off and hang a left we can take a low, slow rise instead of a sharp hill."

"Hey, my hero." she laughed, glancing back the way they'd come. "That swings us back around towards the zoo doesn't it?" yes, she'd definitely take that route. Longer, winding, but less hill-like!

"Shall we?" she asked, offering her arm.

"So it does!" Dilan agrees, setting his hand on her arm delicately. What? She offered! He likes screwing with expectations. "Want to go see the zoo?"

Aya grinned and laid her free hand across his fingers, then tucked the arms against her side warmly. What? It was how this things went! Figuring out how to skate and not bungle it all? That was fun. "Yes, I haven't been there since the redid the reptile house. Could be worth it."

"I love the reptile house." Dilan chirps, "It's warm, zoo it is!"

"Because of course that's its best feature." she laughed. "The poor snakes feel very neglected now..."

"Snakes, while interesting in many ways and very sexy in certain circumstances involving dancing, are not nearly as intriguing as actually being really warm." Dilan says virtuously.

"Oh...ech." she wrinkled her nose "I can't help but flash to the scene in Bladerunner every time snake dancing comes up." movie marathons could go very, very bad with the group she knew? Blade runner had been good. Playing that particular scene over and over in slow motion to argue over the actual details? That had been bad.

"I'm almost afraid to ask what your heating bills are like."

Dilan laughs and says, "Oh, dear. Well, knock that off my mental images list, then." Mostly. Sort of. Not. "They're not actually that bad, we've got really good insulation, double paned windows, and my room has tapestries slash rugs on the walls to help keep the heat in."

"You don't have to." she laughed "I'm just going to avoid the mental imagery." she pointed out simply. She didn't expect anyone not also experiencing that particular trauma to have issues?

"Hmm, that is the bright way to go about it." she admitted. "How much did the glass run you? I might have to look into that as my next home improvement project." her apartment had a lot of glass and a lot fewer walls?

"Sweet. I can send it back into the mental filing cupboard." He pauses for an over-elaborate 'filing' sort of motion before putting his hand back on her arm. Then he gives her a set of detailed quotes.

"Neatly filed musings?" she teased, patting his hand "Is it alphabetical?" cause that'd be interesting. And weird. And yes, she'd probably ask about ideas for various letters...

The quotes made her pause though. She usually carried a small notepad and pencil opposite her wallet, and this was well worth writing down. "Yep, going to have to look into that. Even if it just cuts heating a little it'll be worth it."

"Nah. I have a filing system based as much on synesthetic reactions as on anything that someone else can understand." Dilan admits, "So other synesthets think that it makes perfect sense, but nobody else does."

"Even mentally?" she blinked up at him "That's...well, cool honestly." she couldn't think of a better word for it. "Too bad you don't have telepaths to mess with. That would be incredibly amusing." she grinned.

Yes, Ben may be a little too influential in her life.

"Sometimes I do." Dilan says cheerfully, "Braig's experiments often lead into exploration of psychic phenomena along with more standard magic. If they come out swearing up and down that I'm insane and impossible to read they're more likely to be real."

"Hmmm, now I know who to drag in if we have to find a new psych for the precinct." she grinned. They didn't use them often. And most of those they did 'use' weren't real by general consensus. Once or twice though...

"With luck that'll be years away though."

"I can give you a list." Dilan says with a shrug, "Braig has a handful who pass greater than 65% of the tests on a regular basis."

"No thanks" she lifted a hand to wave off the offer "We just try to be very careful with who we've managed not to scare off." she sighed.

"And I wouldn't want to sic people on unsuspected psychs by accident if the precinct boys found the list."

"Fair enough. You can give me a call, then, and I'll look them up if you need something." Dilan says cheerfully.

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