Garrot smiles, and just rolls his eyes. "If you keep apologizing, it might cheapen it." So he leans forwards a bit, closing the distance as much as the situation will allow. "It happened, you apologized, and we're moving on. It was a good reason to give you the glasses, too!" Garrot just chuckles, because he does get it, and once he processed his anger he was fine.
"I told you I've been a fighter for longer than you've been alive, so I want you to imagine how many times I've slipped up like that over the years." He spreads the fingers on one hand out, and then quickly curls them into a fist. Garrot doesn't want to say that he's knocked people out, because that should tell them the whole thing. But then he stifles a laugh.
"One time about eighteen months ago, my youngest dropped from an air vent onto my head." Garrot's hand gestures are very emphatic. This happened. "I freaked out, and threw her right into the couch! She was six." But then he just starts laughing, before forcing himself to wheeze out "And she was fine. She laughed about it too!" as he sighed the mirth from his system. After another breath, he looks right at Zafika's eyes, right at those glasses.
"We could work on that reflex, if you wanted." The words are compassionate, soothing, just a little pleading. "To make up for losing my temper around you twice in just as many days." But now Garrot's the one looking away, straight to the floor. Zafika isn't the only one who's made sudden and unexpected mistakes that hurt people.
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"I told you I've been a fighter for longer than you've been alive, so I want you to imagine how many times I've slipped up like that over the years." He spreads the fingers on one hand out, and then quickly curls them into a fist. Garrot doesn't want to say that he's knocked people out, because that should tell them the whole thing. But then he stifles a laugh.
"One time about eighteen months ago, my youngest dropped from an air vent onto my head." Garrot's hand gestures are very emphatic. This happened. "I freaked out, and threw her right into the couch! She was six." But then he just starts laughing, before forcing himself to wheeze out "And she was fine. She laughed about it too!" as he sighed the mirth from his system. After another breath, he looks right at Zafika's eyes, right at those glasses.
"We could work on that reflex, if you wanted." The words are compassionate, soothing, just a little pleading. "To make up for losing my temper around you twice in just as many days." But now Garrot's the one looking away, straight to the floor. Zafika isn't the only one who's made sudden and unexpected mistakes that hurt people.