"Oh, it's quite fluttery." She wasn't even going to acknowledge how red her face must be. "If you don't think so, you probably haven't. He leaves an impression. Good or bad."
"Merlin? As in?" She blinked. Then stared. Then put on her sonic sunglasses for a moment and did a scan. Then she put them away and blinked again, poking him curiously. "You're real. An actual real flesh and blood person. You're not just a story. This is the best day in all one hundred and four years of my life."
She grinned. "Oh, just you wait, Handsome Wizard One, we'll be more than friends. You're just entirely too...." She squeaked happily. "You!"