[Yes it is. Sure, part of it is that she's a flirt, but hey, he'll never get better at dealing with that kind of attention if he isn't given opportunities to practice how to handle it. Also it's kind of fun. And it's not like it's entirely untrue, either.]

It's difficult when you're younger than fifteen, too.

[Which she knows altogether too well (ah, the old days, when she threw herself into her work because it was all she had; they didn't give her the Chief as a partner until she was sixteen), and mitigates by making her next move. When she taps the cup, her fingers linger, and she drums the tips on the base for a moment.]

What if you disappeared tomorrow? You know we'd take care of her, that much is a given. But if you let her get too tangled up in you, then someday she might be in for a terrible awakening with no resilience to compensate.

[Thus speaks the woman who lost a surrogate daughter and carved a hundred-foot rune into a mountain as a coping mechanism.]

Find an activity to do together, where there'll be other people around. Maybe meeting new people together will give her the chance to work on those skills and form some attachments of her own. Assuming you're careful not to let her rely too much on you when you do.