[Muffet nods sympathetically, not surprised to hear that- if that one sentence was the norm, she can easily imagine that an actual conversation would knock someone unconscious.]

I'm perfectly willing to take your word for it- after all, it's not as though I'm a theologist. Or an expert on fonons, for that matter. In my world, the former is unproven and the latter... apparently nonexistent, as I've never heard of them at all, unless it's just something where we have different terms for the same thing.

[His last statement, though, that gets her to blink in confusion. Did he just offer... what she thinks he did?]

You... wouldn't mind what, exactly?