Serena ended up being glad she hadn't made an impression of herself on him as a complete weirdo. It was a good thing he asked the pet question before that one. She just gave him a nod and a smile.

"Thank you, Sir." And then she was waiting for the next question. That she could ask her own, that this interview was perhaps supposed to be some kind of back-and-forth, hadn't really set in for her yet. It probably wasn't going to at all.