"I feel I should thank you for the compliment, but I have a feeling it's sort of a back-handed compliment towards my obsessive compulsive behavior." He joked, but something in his shoulders loosened a little. Adelaide always had the gift to get right through his bullshit. "... I guess so. Or at least I expect to be, I don't know, people. Not monsters. Not like something out of a Fade-rift nightmare."

There was a pause, then, before his lips flattened out, "We'll see about that. I need to see what they can do for me, first."