[ha, he chuckles too, as if he totally gets the joke. because he just might.]

If those two questions are meant to be related, I hope I haven't worried you. I assure you that all of my intentions are mostly harmless.

[it should probably feel strange or out of place to be reassuring someone who you've been having a lovely evening with that you're not intending on murdering them, but it seems to fit in this case. he can only hope that addressing the topic so bluntly won't have the opposite effect.

it's hard to know how to navigate these topics, sometimes. mortals can get so touchy about it.

and then, as an afterthought, he remembers the point of the game.]

And I suppose it would be silly of me to call that anything but a truth.