In the course of her dealings with Desmond over the years, CeCe had learned two things: one, not to encourage him if she ever wanted him to stop. Two: it took very little to encourage him. The god was irrepressible. She enjoyed him and his antics, but there was a time and place for everything.
This brought her to the third thing she had learned - in order to move on from his nonsense, ignore his words and respond to the perceived intent behind them. "It's nice to see you too, dear," she said with a warm smile. "It's been quite some time."