"There are perhaps worse things."

He does have a dry sense of humor lurking under the surface, even if he does sometimes take things more literally than he ought to, or lacks the empathy to know his audience and pitch a joke correctly. Wry observations and sarcasm? That he can do.

And Locus tips his head, brushing a little closer to York's as he does so, to observe the sweetly sleeping animal. "I'm sure she's very grateful."