Well, it was an obedient dinosaur; that put him sufficiently at ease. But now he was faced with a girl who by all rights ought to be in class. Maybe his class. Was it possible this was the ever-absent Gertrude Yorkes in his Primary Chem class?
A day where things just didn't go right? He'd had a few of those. There was that one time he got caught in the corona of a gamma bomb. "Yeah, you could say that. So what's so bad it's more important than getting to class?" He added a note of seriousness to the question, trying to avoid sounding patronizing.