It's a lot to think about. She's not sure, even, if she can do it right here and right now. She is not prepared, and how would she have been?

Okay. Let's lay this out. One one hand, she really likes him, and would really like to continue to be, well, with him. Whatever that means. She can also sympathize with wanting to do whatever it takes to get lost magic back. And it's not like the woman (women?), whoever they are, in the service of Shada, will be interested in a relationship, from the way he's described it.

On the other hand... well, it's unexpected and she's out of her depth and she's always sort of abstractly believed that sex was a thing that was supposed to happen only between married people, or very committed people, at least. Then again, she's never really put much stock in the barring of women from the ministry, and it seems that views regarding sex have gotten considerably less strict in the next seventy years.

"I... I think I'm going to need some time to think about this." The words spill out in a halting sort of way, in fits and spurts. "Sebastian... I like you quite a bit. It's just... I think I need to work some things out, in my head, before I can, well..."

She sighs, shakes her head. "Oh, gosh, I've ruined dinner."