[It's a game she enjoys, really, deconstructing the words and phrases he says and finding the intended meaning hidden behind them-- far more entertaining than what anyone else could offer her, here. And so in playing the game, she knows she must let things be known about herself, too, what it means that she's entirely unbothered by his word games or the strange things about him she's made clear she knows, or at least suspects.
But that's how games work -- it takes two.]
Yes, it is... and secrets are often best guarded by some danger. [And seeing how the forest is pretty much the only place in this whole world that offers that danger, well.]