"I mean, yes, I'm an Ivy alum and I'm still as dumb as a box of rocks, how do people not know this?" he said, smiling. But then she turned to go - wait, what? Shit! What had he done now? Or not done? Christ, she was confusing! 'Women' as a monolith weren't confusing, because 'women' as a monolith were people, and people were pretty easy to figure out once you got right down to it. But Valdis was a riddle wrapped inside a mystery wrapped inside an enigma wrapped inside a pretty lady who was also a demon puppy sometimes, and aside from being people she had life experiences that people usually didn't, and that he couldn't account for.

That, and she had an evil black hole of souls inside her, which would probably tweak someone's personality a bit.

"Hold on, you don't get to knock on my door, ask me a weird, leading question, then leave," he said, and took a calculated risk - he reached to put a hand on her arm.