Ask anyone who has ever had the rare honor of interacting with Irahl for any significant amount of time, and they will tell you that he is severely standoffish and has a deep talent for stubbornness... but Trixie moves much too quickly for any of that. If you ignore the first point, and push forward before he has a chance to dig his heels in with the second, you can actually make progress with him.

So, he doesn't have time to mumble a goodbye and politely ditch her before she pins him there for another moment with a question.

"Mm, probably," he shrugs, as if he has actually managed to miss noticing the technicolor girl in the halls.