"It is a quote from something," Ash provided, " The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck by Mary Shelley. You probably know her other work better because even wizards have heard about it, Frankenstein. And one time I spent the night at a place. I don't sleep much at night. Too much fun to be had, the person I was with needed a bit of a rest. She had a lot of books. So I read one."
It was an honest answer. It almost seemed absurd though. The boy who seemed to sleep around with most of the pretty girls in school and so on. Pureblood wizarding family to boot and was reading muggle literature because he just had sex and was bored now. But that was pretty much what happened. Ash expected that Lyra probably wouldn't believe it though.
"My turn to ask a question," he said and moved along, "Have you ever dated anyone before? Or been with anyone?" Because one didn't need to be dating in order to have sex.