Please, by all means, try your other ways. I'm curious to see what gets their attention -- if anything does.

[He just smiles wider at the question of the petname. Sorry, Dany, but Damon likes his petnames. You shall have many. So many. Oh god, keep a list.

And the smile she's trying to hide just encourages him.]

Maybe they do, but dragons aren't exactly in abundance here. I think there's one somewhere, but there are more trolls and bandersnitches and unicorns here than dragons. So maybe girls who aren't dragons should just be happy they can do anything at all.