"There may have been a discussion about zombies," Ravi admits, because while he's a lot more lax about it here, it's not also what he leads with, but they'd been talking science and it had just sort of slipped out. It's not really his fault. "I thought maybe the curiosity about the topic and the ice cream would've made up for the fact that I came off like a bit of a mad scientist."

He hadn't thought it'd gone that badly, though. She'd been polite, she'd said thank you for the ice cream, and sure, he discussed supernatural events and zombies, but he's done that with other people. "Maybe it's just that she prefers your face to mine?"