[Defensive, and thank you, Profit, he absolutely needed your panic. It slips in, feeds in to the rest, exacerbates the paranoia that was holding at an even keel, and now he's everything else and suspicious besides, the sick sense of wrong pulling tighter around it all like a noose, leaving him feeling uncertain about...everything and consequently anxious.
It's a credit to how much he has to deal with this that he barely blinks at it, just scowls and looks put-out, like Jim did something obviously wrong.]
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[Defensive, and thank you, Profit, he absolutely needed your panic. It slips in, feeds in to the rest, exacerbates the paranoia that was holding at an even keel, and now he's everything else and suspicious besides, the sick sense of wrong pulling tighter around it all like a noose, leaving him feeling uncertain about...everything and consequently anxious.
It's a credit to how much he has to deal with this that he barely blinks at it, just scowls and looks put-out, like Jim did something obviously wrong.]