"So, you're a student? You must be rather intelligent" she answered, assuming he was going to school for some kind of degree. In her time that would be the case for a young man of his age.
"So, what was your main interest in school?" she asked, wanting to get to know more about the things he liked. After all that was what people did when they wanted to make friends with the person, right?
"You would be my first, wall crawler" she continued with a sly grin on her lips. She didn't know what this profession was, but the more he talked about it the more interested she became. "So, what exactly does a wall crawler do?" she finally asked.