[Where you're from. Irvine lets out a laugh, unwillingly, and then he can't stop. He manages not to bow in, even manages not to drop Exeter's barrels, but his shoulders shake and he really needs that wall to keep upright.]

Yeah. So long as you're in military uniform or have the credentials, anyway. Shooting people in the street while in a military uniform, now, that's legal too. But I got outta that country. Too much tyranny for my taste.

[First Deling, then the sorceress. Way too much tyranny.]

But I didn't shoot you. And I'm not the one who attacked first.

[He hasn't really internalised the first part of her answer, yet. The unfamiliar words almost go int one ear and out the other. Almost.]