"Is that what this is? Because I was pretty certain I was signing up for a tour," she responded with a light and airy tone that could never be mistaken for anything but casual joking. Light flirtation, at worst. And even as it happened, she kicked herself for descending down such an unlikely road when she was in the middle of descending down another more likely and more literal road.

So, clearing her throat: "What about you? I'm guessing it might just be one coincidence too many to think you also had a helpful older sibling to show you your way around a handgun."