Garin had seen everyone else get threatened when trying, too. Though he was pretty sure that Fitz got threatened less than anyone else out of everybody else. Which was apparently the Reileen Kawahara version of approval.
Or something.
"Well, there might be an occasion that calls for looking less than your best," he said, though it was musingly so. "Not that you'd listen to that, mind you. But it's always possible."
Because their lives were just that kind of fucked up.