It's all good. He has lots of experience with grumpy people who hate fun.

"Do you know any techniques?" he asks, genuinely curious; he's not trying to be patronizing. "I mean, I could show ya one or two, but I'm not sure how adept I am at actually carrying out the procedure these days."

Isa had always been better at that scouts kind of stuff; Lea hadn't really had the patience for it, and once Axel had discovered he had magic, the idea of making fire by hand had just seemed ridiculous.