[There he goes again! Fukawa flails on the spot and hisses.]

St-stop that! Stop it! What's wrong with you? [Honestly, this was so unlike him?!] It's h-hard to f-feel shy when you're...

[Really close? Her eyes trace the line of his neck, elegant and long. Sometimes Claude strikes her as a man you might meet on the street. Exceptional, but not earth-shattering. Others, he seems like a child of a sun god. A man touched by Ra, by Apollo, carrying that divinity back among wretched mortals and rendering them all awestruck.

This place is so absurd. It's crowded the most beautiful people that ever lived in one spot and dropped three goblins in their midst. How is a girl supposed to cope?]

Wh-when you're...ah heh heh...um.

[She swallows thickly. Taps her fingers together and stares down at her toes.]

I g-guess it's...m-more apt to say that I don't f-feel prepared...even if you are acting weird...