Neil likely should have taken spellcasters into account, but this had been his one chance to rest in a bed before he had fled the city, though truth be told, he actually hadn't planned on leaving the city for a good week or two. He was carefree to a fault, sometimes. Now he felt like it was going to get him killed. However, despite the rude awakening and the manhandling by an animated gargoyle, the assassin that was going to finish the job was easy on the eyes, to say the least. He certainly could have been killed by someone far less pleasant, even if there was nothing [i]truly[/i] pleasant about her now that he looked at her plainly. She was classically, hauntingly beautiful, but there was a viciousness and a maddening lust for what he could only guess was power in her eyes. Somehow, he felt if she laughed, her face would have grown contorted and have shadows cast along her cheekbones to look positively evil. Oddly enough, that just made him more interested. The corset helped marvelously as well. 

"What a fucking pair..." He whispered, more to himself than the woman in question. Luckily he said it so quietly during his struggle, it sounded like something nonsensical. He swallowed and cleared his throat, blinking. Her question caught him off guard, and he felt it was because she was entirely confident he couldn't escape. Maybe he couldn't, but he hadn't exactly tried everything. He always got out of situations like this. However, he began to follow the line of thinking her question brought. If he was about to die, what did he want? His belly was full, he had pissed off a lot of people, and now he was looking at what had to be a dark sorceress... 

"Yeah, uh, can I take you out to dinner?" He asked her nonchalantly, as if the whole situation [i]except[/i] her was blasé. His hair was disheveled from his rest and the following scuffle, but he fixed it in the most awkward way imaginable, one arm going over the arm of the gargoyle around his neck, whilst his other hand had to snake around its entire midsection. 

Of course, he would pay for dinner. It was only fair considering she halted her job for his sake, but goddamn he wanted to go out with someone as interesting as her, even if magic sort of freaked him out. He was willing to try anything once, after all.