[...Okay, so yeah, he's already regretting that "blessing."]
Yeah, that's me. The lucky one.
[There's enough sarcasm in his tone to knock out a horse, though perhaps it's not the most incorrect statement. Luck had certainly played no small role in him still standing here, rather than being some smoking crater somewhere, or lost among debris floating in the depths of space.
And then she just had to keep going on. And did she - what did she just say about him?
For a half-second, surprise stalls him long enough for him to get slightly red before he goes immediately onto the defensive.]
Oi, hold on a second, [his brow furrows and maybe he can hide the flush to his face as some feigned anger, though it's pretty clear from his tone that's not what the case here is,] why the hell would you say something like that?
[WHY... DOES HE GIVE OFF THIS IMPRESSION... SHOULD HE BE OFFENDED...]
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[...Okay, so yeah, he's already regretting that "blessing."]
Yeah, that's me. The lucky one.
[There's enough sarcasm in his tone to knock out a horse, though perhaps it's not the most incorrect statement. Luck had certainly played no small role in him still standing here, rather than being some smoking crater somewhere, or lost among debris floating in the depths of space.
And then she just had to keep going on. And did she - what did she just say about him?
For a half-second, surprise stalls him long enough for him to get slightly red before he goes immediately onto the defensive.]
Oi, hold on a second, [his brow furrows and maybe he can hide the flush to his face as some feigned anger, though it's pretty clear from his tone that's not what the case here is,] why the hell would you say something like that?
[WHY... DOES HE GIVE OFF THIS IMPRESSION... SHOULD HE BE OFFENDED...]