... Maybe he was too jokey for a kid to get it. "It's... never mind. It's kind of a saying... anyway." He shifts a little uncomfortably. "I'd show you, but I don't know that you could see it." And if she could, that might still be a bad thing.

Really, he should leave, but he doesn't want a kid to get hurt. "Do you have anyone else to stay with? It's getting kind of cold for a kid to stay somewhere with no heat."