They physically wince, hearing that. Well, hell. "Ah. Well. Technically I'm dead? That might do it." And then, of course, the whole medical death torture thing. And the killing people thing. Maybe just being dead will be enough without having to explain further. (Buddy, you used to spill all that to anybody who'd so much as mention it. So I've learned how to do human interaction a little better. Fuck off, Sarge, what put you in a mood today?) Sarge doesn't answer, just mutters something unintelligible and withdraws a little.

Better than nothing, they suppose.