Whatever small amount of bemusement passes over him doesn't end up lingerin' too terribly long. "You see, there you go again. Keep coming back to the whole shooting incident like it's something the needs debating." By this point Mal can't help feeling this conversation is just about as productive as wandering about lost in these woods; for all the effort he's putting in seems all but impossible to make any sort of decent headway. Don't matter how long he's at it, the results ain't changing and he's left going in circles all over again. So he's gonna try explaining all this through one final time, but swear on the divine squishiness of the Buddha's belly if the man keeps up with his insistent misunderstanding Mal ain't gonna feel even a smidgen of guilt over what might follows. "You can dress it up as fancy as you want, might be a 'fundamental disagreement' over what happened in your own head, but it's hardly something one can go forming an opinion over. It's as simple as what happened and what didn't, and the facts here are I didn't take a single shoot your direction. Wasn't even properly aiming at the panther! You're telling me you've never heard of a gorramn warning shot?"
At this point Mal feels as if he's offered up just about every kindness one could extend to a man so against anything of the type. He tried helping him after his little incident only for the man to start cursing up a storm and then straight up lying to him, clearly thinking Mal is a border-born fool. Then once it's clear that he's speaking complete nonsense, well, Mal even tried to tell him as much, showing himself to be plenty willing to just go drop the whole of what came before since it's clear the fall (or possible the shot, but likely the whole part that came after with him hitting the ground) whacked something loose and he's not in his right mind. Even stood here explaining - multiple times which is multiple times more than he'd usually be bothered with, must be going soft in his old age - how he had the whole situation wrong and Mal'd never been shooting at him at all so he don't see how that is even still something being brought up.
Understandable if he's been as seriously rattled up as he's acting he might be feeling somewhat testy and Mal don't particularly clear how bad his brain got knocked about seems he's repeated himself more than enough to get through to him no matter what the state of his mind. Starting to seem more and more like wouldn't matter if he were perfectly fine he'd still be chéngshí zuòwéi yīgèrén yīdàn tā yǒu nǐ zài tā de chuáng shǎng.
Now maybe if Simon were here he'd be able to do something more helpful, or if Kaylee were about she'd surely be able to lighten the mood just by being her yángguāng self but, well, this fellow happened to find himself with Mal. And Mal just didn't have the patients for folks in general, never mind liars and the likes. Definitely he's feeling what last of his calm he's kept about him quickly disappearing.
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At this point Mal feels as if he's offered up just about every kindness one could extend to a man so against anything of the type. He tried helping him after his little incident only for the man to start cursing up a storm and then straight up lying to him, clearly thinking Mal is a border-born fool. Then once it's clear that he's speaking complete nonsense, well, Mal even tried to tell him as much, showing himself to be plenty willing to just go drop the whole of what came before since it's clear the fall (or possible the shot, but likely the whole part that came after with him hitting the ground) whacked something loose and he's not in his right mind. Even stood here explaining - multiple times which is multiple times more than he'd usually be bothered with, must be going soft in his old age - how he had the whole situation wrong and Mal'd never been shooting at him at all so he don't see how that is even still something being brought up.
Understandable if he's been as seriously rattled up as he's acting he might be feeling somewhat testy and Mal don't particularly clear how bad his brain got knocked about seems he's repeated himself more than enough to get through to him no matter what the state of his mind. Starting to seem more and more like wouldn't matter if he were perfectly fine he'd still be chéngshí zuòwéi yīgèrén yīdàn tā yǒu nǐ zài tā de chuáng shǎng.
Now maybe if Simon were here he'd be able to do something more helpful, or if Kaylee were about she'd surely be able to lighten the mood just by being her yángguāng self but, well, this fellow happened to find himself with Mal. And Mal just didn't have the patients for folks in general, never mind liars and the likes. Definitely he's feeling what last of his calm he's kept about him quickly disappearing.