"I wasn't," he protests quietly - he's not just saying these things to be nice or spare her feelings or anything, she's genuinely very nice-looking and all that - but he's rather thankful that she's saving him from that rather big hole he's digging for himself.

Anyway he's aware that he's unshaggable so it's probably for the better that she--... tries those moves on Marc or whatever. Good heavens, Steven doesn't want to know anything about that.

"How you acted?" He frowns and purses his lips as he tries to recall the most offensive thing that happened when they met. "Oh! You mean the-- right. Yeah. Don't worry about it love. I'd hit me too. Especially if I thought it'd fix anything." Not-- necessarily as hard as she hit him or as deeply as the way Marc harms himself or anything like that but... he can take a bit of a hit. Sometimes.

"Have you any new theories about what this all is?"