If Psiioniic’s lack of humor wasn’t so obvious there, Sam’d be hitting that line right back at him. But even as much as Sam likes to banter during pretty serious situations, he’s not the kind of guy to force it like that.

He grimaces a little at Psiioniic’s response. Great, that kind of thing means either this is a powers arena, or the Gamemakers are already hitting hard. Sam’ll just have to hope for powers arena, at least that means better things for most of his allies.

“Yeah, you are, but don’t ask me why. The Gamemakers must be up to something.” Terezi has one, too, but he and Clint don’t, and Sam doesn’t feel like he has enough information to make any kind of guesses about why, at least not with any confidence. Human versus troll seems a little too obvious.

“And I hope that was a joke that fell even flatter than the first one, man, because there’s no way I’m going along with you being a meat shield.”