"It's better than what I got. I'm not used to this format and my guy's kinda stumped." Seriously. It's bugging the hell out of both of them.

"It's a good con. Seriously. I'd be too twitchy to do it but they like you and you can handle not giving up the game easily. I couldn't." There's that other thing he'd said while being an absolute bastard. "...I shouldn't have- yeah. That was way out of line, what I said. About you and..."