Let's put our sordid past behind us for a second here... well, more than a second. I'm completely over everything.

Regardless-- you've got seniority. Don't let this cat throw you off. So, you're from Shakespeare? He's from a television series I watched when I was a kid.

Do that haughty chin raise you do, and move on. You know as well as I do, it's not worth it.

Feeding in is only giving him validation.