"I wouldn't right now," Zacharias replied in a pragmatic sort of way. "That doesn't mean I wouldn't change my mind in the future. Don't blame yourself for things that haven't happened. That must be exhausting." It was tiring him out and he wasn't even the Seer!
"Look," he said, shifting his weight to the other foot and tilting his head to the side. "The problem here is that you don't really know me, at all. And I don't know you." And so it all seemed hard to believe, what might happen in the future.
"Why don't you let me take you out. For dinner. Say.. Sunday evening. We can talk and get to know one another a bit. And you'll see that I'm not entirely scary." When he didn't want to be, which he didn't!