He huffs, not a laugh, just a quiet, amused sort of noise at the turnaround. So he's not getting an answer, but he guesses that's okay. Would probably be stupid to expect any answers to anything right now, even when he ends up actually wanting one.
"Okay. So, you're the boss, and you're... tired of the paperwork, decided to live a little." Like working out roles with the guys, not as Hissrad, who'd leaned more toward handing them out himself and giving orders, but as the Iron Bull, laying out an idea just to see where the other guy's going to take it. He isn't convinced, as much by the fact that she hadn't outright confirmed it as by the other, more practical reasons — easier to lie without actually lying even when lying's something you're good at, and easier to make other people believe it too, sometimes — but that's no reason not to go along with it and see where it goes. "That or I'm just that important. Hey, someone tell you the Iron Bull's got a big ego? Watch out, or you're going to flatter me."
The chains clink as he shifts, habit getting him starting to throw an arm over the back of the chair before he remembers he can't. That's okay. If it's convincing, it will convince. If it isn't, it won't. It's hard to tell. His guys would expect a little more in the voice, he thinks, but someone who hasn't ever spoken to the Iron Bull... It probably doesn't matter. Anyone who's either this unafraid of him or this good at hiding it's probably pretty good at seeing what isn't there, even if they didn't know him at all before.
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"Okay. So, you're the boss, and you're... tired of the paperwork, decided to live a little." Like working out roles with the guys, not as Hissrad, who'd leaned more toward handing them out himself and giving orders, but as the Iron Bull, laying out an idea just to see where the other guy's going to take it. He isn't convinced, as much by the fact that she hadn't outright confirmed it as by the other, more practical reasons — easier to lie without actually lying even when lying's something you're good at, and easier to make other people believe it too, sometimes — but that's no reason not to go along with it and see where it goes. "That or I'm just that important. Hey, someone tell you the Iron Bull's got a big ego? Watch out, or you're going to flatter me."
The chains clink as he shifts, habit getting him starting to throw an arm over the back of the chair before he remembers he can't. That's okay. If it's convincing, it will convince. If it isn't, it won't. It's hard to tell. His guys would expect a little more in the voice, he thinks, but someone who hasn't ever spoken to the Iron Bull... It probably doesn't matter. Anyone who's either this unafraid of him or this good at hiding it's probably pretty good at seeing what isn't there, even if they didn't know him at all before.