"Uh huh, I know that," Kaden said, and suddenly more was coming out of his mouth without any permission at all from his brain. "None've my brother's smoked. Cuz the lung thing and they were fighters. Didn't stop'em drinking though. Or drugs. Less they had a fight coming up. Anyway. I'm not an idiot. Not that you're—" he stopped himself up short, realizing what he said, and for a second his mouth was pressed shut tight and his eyes wide.
"'magine wizard lungs are better than human lungs anyway," he saved himself with a mutter, picking at a bit of rosemary that was trying to poke him in the arm.