[Trip realizes he may have misspoke. But he isn't entirely sure where the brunt of the fault lies, in his words or in assuming the look was meant for him (it seems not to be, for a moment, then, it is?):]
Like that little one you're feeding.
If the phrase offends them as much as it does Pokemon, I apologize and take it back. Partners, then? Team? ... familiars?
[It's just a bit hard to tell whether he's playing dumb, as if he hadn't realized the possible connotations of the word given who he was speaking to and who he had spoken with... or earnestly trying to make amends with Dio's dragon. He does seem to be looking the direction it had been feeding, earlier...]
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[Trip realizes he may have misspoke. But he isn't entirely sure where the brunt of the fault lies, in his words or in assuming the look was meant for him (it seems not to be, for a moment, then, it is?):]
Like that little one you're feeding.
If the phrase offends them as much as it does Pokemon, I apologize and take it back. Partners, then? Team? ... familiars?
[It's just a bit hard to tell whether he's playing dumb, as if he hadn't realized the possible connotations of the word given who he was speaking to and who he had spoken with... or earnestly trying to make amends with Dio's dragon. He does seem to be looking the direction it had been feeding, earlier...]