Excuse you, Collette, Caesar was very sensible, thank you! The laugh turning into that cough, in fact, made him very sensibly worried, even if the look of worry was contained to only a second or two before he went neutral again.

"It's not as thought I can turn logic off," he complained in place of asking how she was right off the bat. He would give it a moment, also giving Lani a sideglance in the meantime. "If it were mutual, it could be romantic, but it isn't. The narrator just said so!"

Of course, after that, that was when he turned back to Collette to ask, "Do you need something to drink?"