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"Unless you like, right?" he says, a note of mischief in his voice.

Before she can answer, he begins looking at the various lines of her hand, nodding and making a few different 'Hm' and 'Ah' sounds here and there. He'd learned the technique when he was a kid back home, and it became one of the more successful scams he'd run.

He found himself amazed, however, at what Rose's palm told him.

"You're cautious with your heart." he begins, tracing the heart line with his finger. "You feel as deep as anyone, but you don't let people know, because they'd take advantage if they could. You've been...hurt or uprooted along the way." he infers, continuing the examination.

"You're intelligent, of course, but you know a lot that can't be found in books, too. But if push came to shove, you'd go with your gut before you went with a 'time-honored' plan that probably work 8 times out of 10." he continues, thinking that over as he moves on.

"Your health line is the deepest one I've ever seen, Rose. You're going to see and do tons in your life, provided you don't decide to play chicken with a bus or somethn'. You live life as it comes, and you live it. You don't worry or wait for what might happen. You go with what is happening." he says.

"All in all, that cute smile hides a lot mischief, Professor Rose. You might rub off on me yet." he says.