He catches that practiced, too-smooth edge. Catches it, and is interested in spite of himself, because he almost buys it. That's not unheard of, but it's far from common.
It's hard to be offended when his own answer is the entirely untrue, "Having a few drinks with the lads. This isn't the strangest place I've woken up after a night out, but it's in the top ten."
He hesitates, then twists to offer her a hand. "I'm Alex. If we're going to be evading guards together, we should probably be on a first name basis." It's neither his name nor the name on his ID, a careful layer of distance in case this...whatever this is spirals even further out of control, but it's one he's used extensively enough to let him respond to it without hesitating.
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It's hard to be offended when his own answer is the entirely untrue, "Having a few drinks with the lads. This isn't the strangest place I've woken up after a night out, but it's in the top ten."
He hesitates, then twists to offer her a hand. "I'm Alex. If we're going to be evading guards together, we should probably be on a first name basis." It's neither his name nor the name on his ID, a careful layer of distance in case this...whatever this is spirals even further out of control, but it's one he's used extensively enough to let him respond to it without hesitating.