[Krone bats her eyelashes, which disguises the almost grateful way that the lads of her fingertips press down against the fork that twists around its long axis in her grip, like a ballet dancer as an acrobatic fish or maybe a hummingbird.] Is that supposed to be a teeming underbelly metaphor, or just plain phonics?

[She turns to the right angle facing him. Their shoulders brush.] Is this word association~? I love word association~!