It'd been a nice save, his smile had managed to buy him some time to make her oversee his little slip up and keep her hooked. He gave an internal Yes! and took a little step to break the small distance that remained between them.
But quickly, when she reacted towards his words Finn retraced his steps, feeling like his every efforts of charming her had come undone. He stared back into her her, which had now grown to be the size of the moon. What was so shocking? Hadn't she appreciated he called himself King of the Hot Springs? he wondered aimlessly.She questioned his the legitimacy of his name to which the silver boy reacted by quirking his brow and tipping his head to one side. Looking as utterly comfused as a pup who was being explained where babies came from.
"I'm not kidding" he barked just as she interrogated him like a murder case suspect. "No, no one told me to.." She was beginning to sound like a lunatic, though he would've probably done the same if he understood why his name was so surprising to her.
"What's going on? Was that your ex's name?" he barked while taking a wild guess, just as wild as the coincidence that had brought Fin and Finn together.