Did you want a fight? That would have been more pointless.

[ Says the guy who might as well be picking a fight by saying something like this. He means it as a way to convey some sort of sentiment approaching on 'staying calm is the best option', but his terseness usually works against his favor.

Thank god the birds are a mild distraction to Adolf's overall prickliness. They sort of diffuse the situation...sort of, or maybe they're making it worse; Adolf's bird has seen fit to follow Changge's bird and is now attempting to pick up a piece of her hair by its beak. ]

—I wasn't going to ask if I could take them. They just seem to like you.