[ She doesn’t quite snort at his wistful sigh (that would be unladylike) but she does roll her eyes. She also, notably, doesn’t pull away as he moves closer. ]

Can you? I’m assuming you were basically a child, barely hatched.

[ It’s hyperbolic, she knows he’s older than that, but it’s hard to take him seriously sometimes when she thinks about how young he probably is. ]

Alessandro is…all right. I have mixed feelings on dramatizations of him.