I'm not explaining knitting. It's like sculpting, except a lot slower and involving a ton of yarn. Anyway, how old are you?

[Sometimes it's hard to tell with kids. Usually he wouldn't care about exposing an innocent child to some saucy knowledge as long as they weren't actually being involved in it, but things aren't exactly usual anymore.]

You're right, it's a game. A grown-up game that you'd probably find very boring, so don't worry about it. [He doesn't know how much she knows about the birds and the bees and no one wants him explaining how sex works. He'll totally do it if she wants, though. Might get him the laughs needed for the whole emotional thing.]

But we're off topic. I need to make sparks of a different sort happen. Can you do it?