[ well if they want to hit wolfwood in the face then they’re more than welcomed to. wolfwood’s no coward and if it’s a fight that they want to start then who is he to deny them? he has been healed now and it’s been a very long time since he threw them into the river.

as things are presently, wolfwood is still “winning” as far as he’s concerned as he chuckles to himself at their response and continued attempt to deflect onto him. seeing them get even more worked up from what he had said only encourages him to continue being up to no good. ]

No reason to play it coy. All I did was realize somethin’ that was already there; what ya did was find somethin’ with someone new. [ wolfwood takes a moment from whittling to give them a knowing smirk. ] And were down to explorin’ that somethin’ new, too.

[ all jokes aside—their relationship(?) with jasper shouldn’t be ignored whether it finds its root in something physical or not. (again, wolfwood does not want to know.) they came here without any sort of that attachment and likely weren’t interested in creating that kind of attachment, yet here they are.

he'll allow enough time for them to process that before he casually answers their question about why he picked a pheasant for them and gets back to work whittling. ]

I read somewhere that pheasants are symbols of good luck and optimism. Not that I think yer bringin’ anyone good luck who knows better.

[ but maybe they could provide someone a bit of optimism—a sentiment that wolfwood avoids saying even accounting for his good mood. though before they think wolfwood is getting “all sentimental” on them, he’ll quickly throw in another dig. he can’t go about giving them too much credit, after all. ]

They also look like the kind of bird who would be fussy and give ya a headache.