Is this where I point a gun at you and you tell me it's alright to shoot? And then I shoot to miss, and we have a little argument, and we all end up laughing it off? Because if we're going to do that, I think we need to call up Setsuna and have him come over, so that he can "mediate", while really, he's just standing there contemplating how amusingly mentally defective we all are.

You know. For balance's sake.

[His mouth curled into a bitter smile. If there was one area of humor Tieria had an excellent grasp of, it was irony. It never failed to amuse him, even in the grimmest of times. Of course, that had led to some unpleasant misunderstandings in the past (he'd really thought Lockon was going to take his head off that one time - he's always had a dangerous temper, hasn't he? how could I have missed it? - and in hindsight, he'd been genuinely sorry for what he'd said that day), but really, he needed what little joy he could scrape together at this point.]