you know the first rule of combat?

"Oh, it would be precious, if we didn't all have to suffer through the result," Eames says, smiling in return as he does. Truly, it isn't quite so awful as he makes it out to be, but once the point has been made, he doesn't want to relent on it, either, continuing only for its sake. Of course, what she says after, that is a much more interesting turn of conversation. "A drink, though, sounds wonderful, if you care to head out now."