Okay! I won't even smile.

[A grin tugs at the corner of his mouth anyway. Since she spends most of her time mute, all of her emotions tend to show on the surface anyway, whether she means them to or not.]

Being mute isn't that much of a handicap once you get around it, by the way. I was created without a voice box. I wonder if you still operate by my soul.

I wish I could dissect myself to find out.

[Which seems like a perfectly reasonable desire, really.]