"You ask people strange questions," Billy shoots back at the other. Tone-wise, it's not really all that harsh, since Billy is pretty good at keeping up a reasonably polite tone, but the word choice is a little more direct than he'd usually opt to use.

It's not like he's lying though, right? Surely anyone who talks to Tom for more than two seconds can see he is really, really strange.

.. right?

"Should you not at least provide your own answer before expecting another's?"