Chicken? About what? The carnival? What? And where did 'soldier boy' come from? While he did not make his profession and, well, his very existence, that much of a secret, couldn't she just... call him Ryan?
"No, I don't-"
He had meant to say something like, 'it's not that I don't enjoy your company - we can stay as long as you want to' or something like that, even if he wasn't all that keen in staying as long as she wanted to, but as he ended up literally stumbling into the carnival, he became a little wary of the people around them. The surrounding lights and noises weren't helping, either, and his train of thought was lost to the crowd and cacophony.