As he spoke, Rikki watched him carefully. Was he a threat? She probably should've asked Anna to come with her, after all. At least Anna was a werewolf; she probably wouldn't have told. But Rikki was mostly a loner. She didn't like to be around people. She wouldn't have even stayed friends with Emma, Bella, and Cleo except that they shared her secret and keeping it would've been awfully lonely. It was awfully lonely, she realized.
"That is the weirdest thing anyone has ever said to me," she said, sticking with her confused cover. "Do I look inhuman? And it's called cold air hitting heated swimming pool. The same sort of thing happens when you take the lid off of a cup of coffee on a cool day," she defended. Lewis would've been able to get this guy to lay off with all his science blabber, but Rikki wasn't as smart as Lewis was and she knew it. "And I'm Rikki, by the way," she added, wrinkling her nose at being called 'Miss.' It sounded too proper and stuck up.
She had noticed the tone in his voice change, though. Like he was...impressed by his belief that she'd made the steam. She wondered if that was how Lewis's bimbo doctor friend had sounded when she talked to Lewis about the toenail clipping of Cleo's that he'd stupidly left under the microscope in her lab. The one that had mutated its cells when the doctor had added water to it. "What if I could, though? Make the steam without you opening doors and letting in chilly air?" she challenged.