That earns him another Look, this time with a raised eyebrow. "You are a teenage boy, I am twice your age, I am also not a predator, and I know I just met you but I think that pretty firmly establishes the framework for our relationship. Also, if the word cougar comes out of your mouth, I will absolutely flick your ears, and I am the youngest child in a very big family. I know how to make that really sting." She says it like it's a legitimate scary threat, even though she knows full well that it's not. Which is sort of the point. Things are often not as awkward as teenage uncertainty attempts to make them. Not if the adult in the equation it's a total scum bag, and Patch wants to be very clear from the word go - Peter is safe with her.

He is also something of an oddity, and she's sure that's super difficult to deal with on top of puberty and the absolute horror show of awkward that accompanies it, but she can't just set aside the interest. "Is this normal where you come from? Is this just... a way humans have adapted to... something?" She honestly wouldn't even begin to be able to speculate on what they'd have to evolve these skills to offset. She's just spit-balling, here.