It's a pretty flimsy excuse and Lux isn't sure she buys it, but Jason looks so abashed about the whole thing and he's pulled his arm from around her so quickly that she lets it be.

"It's okay," she tries to reassure him, pausing to bend down and jerk one of her sandals from her feet so that she can dislodge the pebble caught between her toes. "I'm kind of drunk, I don't know if I'd be any good at it," she says, still bent over and shaking out her shoe. "It might make me better."