"Hey now!" Claudia protested, her lips turning down into a pout. "I'm a very.. straight forward person..." she grinned then. "Most of the time." OK, so she wasn't a liar or anything, but sometimes she sorta kinda streeeeeeeeetched the truth.

Her eyebrows shot up and she'd have said something, but then he'd gone and said she was cuter than the doctor person. Her grin grew and she fluttered her eyelashes at him. "Well of course I'm cuter! I'm cuter and know lots about lasers. OK not lots lots, but enough to build them and blow something up."