Shannon gave him a weak smile and took the journal, flipping through the pages and counting the different handwriting in it. "Oh, wow," she said softly. "Fourteen, including you and Dean," she told him, handing back the journal. "And people didn't wake up alone...so there's bound to be more than the people who've actually written in here. Like, that Dean guy you're talking about? He hasn't written in it yet, at least as far as I know; I've been introducing myself to everybody and taking names for Sam's census. I'd remember if I heard 'Dean' because Sam's looking for someone with that name."
Clever, where Shannon was normally concerned, went directly hand in hand with being manipulative and coy and was not entirely a compliment, but given his accent, maybe the word had different connotations wherever he came from by comparison. His tone of voice seemed genuine enough and Shannon knew that, in a literal sense, it meant 'smart.'
"Thanks," she replied. "I'm really not...it's common sense stuff, I just haven't got anything better to do," she added with a shrug. She thought of the way Kate always went straight into the eye of the storm and Shannon had only ever contributed her ability to speak and read French. This was no different. She wasn't really doing anything important; it was busy work. That was all anyone ever trusted Shannon to do.
Here, take this and get out of the way, Shannon, she thought to herself.
Only, he was asking her to come along to find more people. Looking back at him, she decided that he was good looking...albeit in a pretty, Boone sort of way, which wasn't really her style, but Shannon's comfort zone included good-looking people, however shallow a person that made her. He was smiling widely at her and Shannon dipped her head. No, she'd only get in his way, if she went along. "It's raining," she replied, running her hands through her hair only to push it away from her face. "I'd only get in the way, anyway, but thanks," she added.