"Oh, you know, the usual," He said, eyes crinkling with self-deprecating amusement. "I was trying to tell her about the dwarves - or well, specifically, about this one particular dwarven legend about--" He cut himself off, laughing. "Sorry. She got angry with me for wasting her time, demanded to know what I'd been doing the last few days, and did not like my answer. I got away before that staff came down on my head." He was teasing, of course, she wouldn't have hit him, but that didn't mean that she wouldn't have wanted to.

"I wouldn't want her to take it out on you." Yeah, because that would totally happen, Gavin.