Mount Apikuni don't go out tonight

He cannot tell if she is truly as intrigued as she had led him to believe.  First she was timid and now she is wholly uninterested; it comes to mind to threaten her just to wring some of the emotion back out of her.  But he does not.  The quail cry and scatter, and a cold wind blows from the east.

I can tell. He lays it before her plainly just as she does not beat around the bush and whlie he is fine with this banter for now, he does wonder if there is a point to it all or if she is making small talk (which admittedly, he has never been good at).