His reaction seems purposely slowed, a challenging blink of the eyes his only response to her retort.
The smile grew. It retained a degree of natural amusement, the angle remaining curved up as his eyes scanned over her person. While the once rancorous stance he positioned himself in was diminishing and quickly being overcome by an unusual mellow demeanor, was that really something to call the end of their chatter?
Slowly, he begins his case. He wouldn’t like to have any of his words misheard through his usual quick paced speech, so he carefully crafts his rebuttal.
"Why I am interested in you? I thought it was obvious. You have no reason to accuse my hearing to be faulty, and yet… here we are!" He cackled, raising his arms in a shrug as his head shook from side to side whimsically.
Once his berating laughter had come to another uneasy calm and his arms folded back along his chest, he cocked an eyebrow.
"Allow me to reiterate my words in a way that you cannot back out of.
Let’s backtrack, shall we? You say that I…”
A hand gestures out to the side, Nico smiling at it as his head tilts towards his left.
"… look relatively young for a medic—not that I am. But, you only stated such a thing once I brought up that you…”
His eyes abruptly pull their glance from his palm to glare at her directly, a leer breaking that once meek smile into a jagged, crooked grin.
"…had stated that I smelled like a medic. Now, with that review, ask yourself… why would you say that I ‘look’ young for a medic unless there was reason to be judgmental towards or skeptical of my age?
And, on top of that question, why did you jump straight to an accusation that my hearing is failing me, knowing that I ‘look’ young?
That is why I am interested in you. Your words, to be exact. They contradict one another—a young doctor having his hearing, an important sense, failing him? Wouldn’t a man of such profession know this of themselves? Being that I am indeed a physician, I can attest that my hearing is fine. I know very well of my own body.
With that said, you have two potential options with this. To assume that I am older than I appear in order to continue onto the ‘mishearing’ clause, as that would give you adequate reason for your claim, but would only beg the question of why you believe that, or to say that I did not mishear you when you said I ‘smelled’—if I heard you accurately—like a Medic.
Which, of course, begs a more peculiar question. How?
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