Was it possible that there was a person more repressed than Ernie Macmillan? Judging by Anthony's unwillingness to even use the euphemism, it certainly seemed so. What was worse than a Virgin Boy? Someone afraid of sex and intimacy all together - only that would make a very long nickname and not something worth remembering to keep repeating. Except, no, that was not what he was supposed to be thinking about. That was the distraction, that was what the spell wanted him to do.
"Well, clearly someone doesn't want to be bothered." He said like it was the most obvious thing in the world because it was. And if it wasn't sex, then it had to be danger and that was not his sort of thing. Not at all, which he supposed made it easier for him to go back off track from the alley. "I thought you were smart, aren't you supposed to be smart?"