"If you didn't tell tickets to the show of a lifetime, I'd be slighted! I'd think you didn't truly care about watching me blind myself and pop my peepers in my teethers." Teethers? Keep moving, that's the key to being smooth. Don't show a wit of weakness Gideon darling or you're going to be cursing yourself out soon as this one realizes that you're bluffing.

She pauses at a branch, trying to remember which way to go. This is as bad as Canaan House. Gideon takes a wild guess and leads them down the path that turns out to be headed for the various rooms and she's deeply glad for it because getting lost might be understandable but it certainly wouldn't be cool. "But if you're far too cool for reading, then you'll have to show me the arcade instead."