Awfully hypocritical when you're the one who approached a stranger just to throw stones. Also, I'm not old, and I'm not collecting cats. I have cats.

[ There's a difference there. It's not like he's picked up any more since he got the first three in his first month on the ship. So it's not collecting!

Still, she manages to pull an irritated and maybe somewhat offended huff out of him. He might kind of look it, but he's definitely not old. --And he doesn't even look that old!! Just...older than he really is, is all. ]

Yeah, because that's exactly what I was doing. [ He barely manages to avoid rolling his eyes. ] Excuse me for assuming that, given we're all from different universes, teenagers have different hobbies in some of them.

[ Also he barely remembers being a teenager at this point, he's been in the military so long, but she doesn't need to know that. ]