"Do we have to skip to that one? What about getting to know each other first? Come on, more like... something like... ah! Do you have any pets?" Now wait a minute, that hadn't been on the list.

-- As if he'd care - the attentive, expectant look shot toward the other certainly didn't seem to.

Before his response, however, his eyes trained first and foremost to the clock on the wall, the rest of the room dismissed in much the same casualness as she had dismissed it; likewise, he took his seat with the briefest (read: one owlish blink and a nod back) acknowledgement, remaining thereafter - well, until the question - completely distracted from his interview partner. At least talking seemed to rein his focus in a bit.