[kurt relaxes marginally when jericho laughs, relieved that he's breaking the ice in some sense.]

I— I don't know. I'm not sure I want all the blood to rush to my face, though, either.

[being an evolutionary step up from a human kind of gives him an advantage, then? he won't necessarily be considered a meal. (or so he'd hope, anyway!)]

You would do that? [his expression seems a bit skeptical; it doesn't last, since jericho has yet to give him any reason to distrust him.] That's kind of you.