He's pleasantly surprised by her response, and grateful for the umbrella, and quickly takes her up on her unspoken offer to have a seat beneath it. He removes his flip flops and sets them beside the towel so he doesn't get sand on everything, then sits down and folds his legs up, giving B'Elanna a pleasant smile.

"Much obliged," he says with a hint of affected pomp. "This place seems pretty great, huh? Almost like a real vacation instead of... an accidental kidnapping, or whatever this whole situation qualifies as." He offers a hand to shake. "I'm Axel," he says. "You're... B'Elanna, right?" He isn't entirely sure how to pronounce it, and accents the wrong syllable, but hey, he's trying. "Heard you got quite the promotion, less than a week in; you must be one helluva tinkerer."