[He's actually taken aback by her holding her ground, as she's giving almost as good as she's getting, and he is much too used to being able to drag people into whatever shitstorm he's heading for - or at least drag them further before they start arguing.]
Fine. Here's your explanation. You've been pulled into a pocket universe that exists in the state between life and death. You're trapped on an island on the back of a turtle, in a city full of Asian fascist aliens, with no way of getting home and no goddamn clue how to defend yourself, so now I've got to keep an eye on you when I've got a list of teenagers three pages long that I know the parents and mentors of, who are going to hunt me across time and space to put my head on a pike if we don't get them home safely.
Not that I expect you to understand ANY of this, because apparently you're from a world where apparently I'm in my 20s and you're... you.
[His voice has tapered down from shouting to something approaching hesitant.]
And those are some of my better habits. Don't lie.
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Fine. Here's your explanation. You've been pulled into a pocket universe that exists in the state between life and death. You're trapped on an island on the back of a turtle, in a city full of Asian fascist aliens, with no way of getting home and no goddamn clue how to defend yourself, so now I've got to keep an eye on you when I've got a list of teenagers three pages long that I know the parents and mentors of, who are going to hunt me across time and space to put my head on a pike if we don't get them home safely.
Not that I expect you to understand ANY of this, because apparently you're from a world where apparently I'm in my 20s and you're... you.
[His voice has tapered down from shouting to something approaching hesitant.]
And those are some of my better habits. Don't lie.