[Bless humans and their flirtations. Luckily for Joseph, while one really Should Not flirt with the grim reaper, Botan's already heard it--from men around and about three times his age, so the commentary passes her hearing. The part two is what she's more interested in anyway, watching the ball as he says.

Ah, yes, the ball jumps on a string, the crafty fellow, but it's the charge of energy hitting Botan's senses that causes her to freeze and pay much more attention than she was intending. What was that? He was channeling some type of energy through the ball and string, but it wasn't spirit energy. Very unusual, Joseph earned the applause he gets when she focuses back on the physical plane.]

Impressive! That energy trick you used is especially unique, I can't say I've seen it before. [And really, channeling energy of any type through physical objects isn't anything to sneeze at.] You're full of surprises, aren't you?