"Kid, I don't honestly know whatcha want me to say."
Which isn't quite like surrendering already, so much as another deflection. He's serious, at least, about the part where he said he shouldn't have said that. He shouldn't have. They're kids, they don't need to get exposed to that stuff, or, uh, getting stranded on an island inhabited by beasties and carnivorous plants.
"I'm all better now, ok?"
Liar. Well, ok, to be fair, he's better than he was, and that's good enough. "That guy you brought over. Y'know, when I was taking a dirt nap. How do you guys know each other?"
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Which isn't quite like surrendering already, so much as another deflection. He's serious, at least, about the part where he said he shouldn't have said that. He shouldn't have. They're kids, they don't need to get exposed to that stuff, or, uh, getting stranded on an island inhabited by beasties and carnivorous plants.
"I'm all better now, ok?"
Liar. Well, ok, to be fair, he's better than he was, and that's good enough. "That guy you brought over. Y'know, when I was taking a dirt nap. How do you guys know each other?"