Sawtooth Spire They want me to go eat some worms

Elfie listened to Quellcrist's explanation about the whole "let's hang out" business and what it entailed, and he suddenly felt as if he was sinking in a crowd of too many social norms that he was not familiar with or did not understand. "I am not feverish..." he murmured, when she mentioned him being hot, and for a split of a second he feared that she might have caught sight of that not all was right in his head. 

"What do you mean - "front-loaded with romantic expectations"?" he asked, instead of saying right away that he did not really want to hang out, if incomprehensible things were expected from him. Managing daily life was hard enought already.