He assumed from her silence that it hadn't all gone swimmingly returning those children, but he was happy enough to let her move the conversation elsewhere since she had decided to let his momentary pause go. And for that he was grateful; it was still too fresh to be talking about to anyone other than family. At least, he assumed she'd noticed, since she was an auror and constant vigilance was a key part of that, no?

"Yeah, Odgen's sponsor me, as do a few other places," he confirmed with a smile. "And I do exactly that...I skate. Got on to the Pro tour couple years back." His smile spread into a grin. "Compete all round the world now." It felt pretty cool to be able to say that to Lex, actually.

His grin faltered and eventually dropped at her next admission though. She'd given up? "You didn't even humor him?" Well, that was disappointing. Surely even without practising since school she could have done a small something to placate the kid? She'd had jumps down at one point! "I'd ask if you were off duty and wanna go on mine, for old time's sake, but with that, I'm guessing not."

He looked down a moment. "So what do you do in your spare time? You met someone?"