He shook his head. "Not at all. Most often, you laughed along with me. I don't know if it was for his own pride or...genuine amusement, truth be told." It was a question he'd never posed to himself, either, and he found the idea, the question, unsettling by principle alone. After a moment, he decided he didn't want to know, and chose to move on from it.

"I do not. Should I?" A much safer, at least he hoped, topic of conversation.