He seemed to be taking the whole comic book character come to life thing a bit better than some other people had, but she still watched him go through the mental gymnastics with veiled amusement as she sipped her coffee and waited for him to catch up.
Of course when he did she bust up laughing and shook her head. "The whole point of being a good guy is not swatting people in the back of the head just for being a jerk." She used to save that for John. Won't be any of that anymore since the laughing mage didn't see fit to join her.
In the next breath she got a sly grin on her face with a matching twinkle in her eyes. "I can, however, give him a power wedgie from across the room with a few choice words."