He nodded his greeting and his approval at her strong shake. It was rare to find a shake that confident, which only helped to make him all the more interested about her.

"Ah, no. No vacations. I'm here on a mission as Lady Kushina's assistant," he explained with an idle shrug of a shoulder. It was difficult to keep his typical level of ambiguity when his mission was so atypical of what he was normally assigned to, but he supposed that here it didn't matter much since Adela would have to find out sooner or later when Kakashi gave her the details for her lodgings.

The scent in the air swiftly changed and though Adela looked on the whole as relaxed as earlier, there was a certain rigidness to her posture. He couldn't pretend he didn't see her eyes glaze over his book, and that evidence coupled with the smell of embarrassment rolling from her in waves gave Adela's inner struggle away wordlessly.
He'd almost forgotten, being so used to being open with it in Konoha, that not everyone appreciated his choice of literature.

He closed the book after marking his page with the dust cover, then slipped it back into the pouch at his back and opted for a change of subject.

"So, what brings you here?"