[He's trying to get a rise out of him. Maybe he wants to see if he'll shoot, even. Whatever the case, he can tell a patronizing tone when he hears one, and it is especially scathing coming from Knives himself. His employer. The entity that Wolfwood cannot afford to piss off.

Yet. Yet.

This isn't No Man's Land. It's someplace new. Someplace far from the troubles of their home world, one that has invited problems of its own, and if Nai is functioning under its same rules...

Wolfwood won't pull the trigger, not yet. But he sure does wonder if he bleeds red.]

That doesn't matter here. [He mutters, his words carrying a level of confidence he sure as hell hasn't earned, laying eyes on Nai for the first time as he is.] But by all means, go ahead into the woods and don't come back. You'd be doing us all a favor.