"I could think of it either way," he repeats. "What do you think?"
"With a mirror," he reminds him innocently.
He nods. "I don't need it now, though," he repeats. "Thanks, though."
"You just had to show off and spin about," Severus sighs, shaking his head. "I suppose eating something was a good idea, but really, hot sauce? As cautionary tales go, this is a classic." He uses the headshake and the recoil from the shoe warning to sneak a look down the street.
Ha, that doesn't help personality problems. (gloom) Awww, sorry. :( That 9 was probably what saved you from it yesterday. :\ Most things do in a plutocracy, but they're still a good idea. Yes! And now it's snowing again, so you're good to go! :D It's not that he's ungrateful or unappreciative. It's that he also was raised Cockbill-street!poor, proud, and paranoid, and the last time he had to accept a favor with no visible strings attached, it sucked him so deep into Lucius Malfoy's debt and world that to refuse the Mark he would have had to stage his own death and move to Albania before it was offered.