"With the right combination of good food and wine, I'm sure that both of us will have a little less inhibitions." This time a statement about being open wasn't lost on him, and all of her little quirks at flirting with him weren't going over his head. It wasn't that he couldn't pick up on such cues. Sometimes, Stephen just decided not to acknowledge them for sake of something getting out of hand.
"Yes, I perform almost all of my acts through hand motions of some sort. I've always been very good with them." Which that wasn't really a line to bait her with. That was what he'd been renown for when he'd been a surgeon before he'd taken up his sorcerer mantle. He'd finished tracing the runes in the air, and small rings glowed green in front of them, then widened into larger ones for them to walk through. He held out his hand for her to take so he could lead her to their destination on the other side.