He messes with his cape pack, taking a little longer to tie it than he really needs to like it's taking up a lot of his attention; what Howard's saying isn't really something that's foreign to him, but that doesn't mean it's any easier to hear. "That's saying something." After a second, to cover that up with a bit of humor, he tacks on a "If they start using that as a line about how much good they're doing for us, I'm blaming you."

"Those were human bites?" He said he got it looked at by a doctor, right...? Still, if-- when-- this thing worked, they'd have to do something about that to make sure it didn't get infected.