He gave her a small smile back that lacked any warmth, before replying. "Ah, my apologies. I thought you knew what sarcasm was. I tend to use it as a defense against situations I find well outside my immediate ability to deal with, but since it seems to fly over your head, I will attempt to refrain from using humor that is above you.<br/><br/>No, my issue was the look you gave me. That 'look' is reserved for a certain type of individual, at least when leveled at me, and you are not one, and likely won't be. You are a nice person, I suppose, if a bit naive and brash, but I understand that most beings tend to go through phases that include. I was not so fortunate. What you see is what I have been, a deadpan sarcasm soldier, though it took a while to realize that soldier was what I was. My solutions might be unorthodox, but they are direct. After all, that WAS why your mother summoned me from that magic-less hell hole that I resided in, and was thrust, without any real choice in the matter, into the situation we currently find ourselves in, though it has been getting fractionally more tolerable as I have encountered opponents that I can remove.<br/><br/>You saw my reflexive attempt at humor as an attempt to take advantage of Sapphire, rather than as an attempt to relieve stress and try and make sense of a situation that I was put in with no experience and even less training. You seem to forget that three months ago, I was in a world that had either never had or had driven all magic out of it. Now, I am fighting for both your god and the Summer Court, and have had training best described as brief, if only because the other terms I would prefer to use would involve insults to whoever thought it would be a good idea to give a magicless footslogging soldier access to the power of the Queen of the Summer Court, and then tell him that training wasn't really needed for it."<br/><br/>He gave her a frosty smile, before tilting his head slightly. "And I feel better for some reason. Maybe I just needed to vent about the apparent stupidity of the situation. Now, is there anything else that was included in that 'look,' or was that it?"