"Because," she starts with a hint of a smile, though she quickly realizes she has no better reason than the fact that it's only serving to deepen this... interest, attraction, understanding-- whatever it was that was making itself known between them. This is still just a ruse, after all. She can't very well say any of that aloud, so she lets it be, hoping he'll take the lone word as answer.

"I guess I'm not, usually. If there's a type for that. I like some types of them," she latches on to the other topic, wincing when he brings up the dog. "Yeah, it was bad."