"The last party I attended burned down and killed several people."
Yeah, okay, the dryness is definitely in that line too. It's even more obvious there, given what exactly Billy is saying - that's not the sort of thing you don't say dryly in response to a question like that.
Though he is serious in the sense that it does explain why he isn't really in a party mode right now. Or ever.
"Besides," he adds, almost a little bit more defensively beyond his own understanding, since he doesn't get why he feels the need to defend his personality to someone he has literally only just met yet can't help it, "don't all people get worked up about things?"
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Yeah, okay, the dryness is definitely in that line too. It's even more obvious there, given what exactly Billy is saying - that's not the sort of thing you don't say dryly in response to a question like that.
Though he is serious in the sense that it does explain why he isn't really in a party mode right now. Or ever.
"Besides," he adds, almost a little bit more defensively beyond his own understanding, since he doesn't get why he feels the need to defend his personality to someone he has literally only just met yet can't help it, "don't all people get worked up about things?"