One night in twenty! You'd have better odds if you were a monster, [he teases.] We're only that chancy at the full moons.

[All right, it's not entirely true from what he'd been hearing, but. Sometimes you let the literal truth go for a jape--

--and the known risk of being so inexact around someone like Linden.]

Ahh--you'll spoil me for ordinary rhetoric forever, with that attitude. [Please do.]