[Saying something so blatantly false only would have benefited him. Of course, that was assuming she had ever been capable of lying—which she wasn't. When he seemed willing to ease up on her, she felt only a little more at peace with the idea that he wasn't going to go bragging about exploits that clearly had not happened.

As she followed after him at a comfortable distance, she still turned the entire situation. It was an interesting outing. Date, if one were speaking to him on it. Could it be a date if the other person didn't know that's what it was? She didn't even know where to begin with all of that.

At his assessment of self, Nepione loosed a sigh.]

I don't think you look so bad right now... A little dirty, perhaps. [A lot dirty, actually.] Nothing a bath can't fix. But given that you'll look the same, less some very small variables, my description of you would be the same.

[That was—]

I would probably just describe you as clean.