It took nearly a minute for Slav to realize he was indeed still holding her fingers in his, causing him to look down at his hand as if it needed actual eye contact to perform any function. Once the muscles contracted and relaxed to let go of her hand, he remembered that he was supposed to be playing golf.
The putter had just made contact with the ball to sink it neatly into the hole when Ella asked her question. "Oh," came his first, surprised response, before he thought to actually answer. "I apprentice at a shop, restoring classic cars." The only cars worth putting effort into, in his opinion. Slav bent to scoop both the pink and the green ball out of the hole at the end of the green, holding hers out to her since she seemed to have forgotten to retrieve it.