"Absolutely not," Micah laughed. He did his best - which was to say, not very good at all - English accent and added, "because if a bloke falls over in heels, well, then, he's got kill himself, hasn't he?" He smirked when Rita also pulled a serious expression and played along with his joke. "That's because we talk funny," he replied in his own voice again, also deadly serious for wanting to keep it going to see who would crack and laugh first.
Her answer to his question received another nod. Jesus, at this rate I'm gonna start looking like a bobble head doll, he thought to himself even as he did so. "It's kind of amazing how that works, huh?" he asked, caught between amusement and awe. He always wondered why and how life worked like that - that something as simple as doing his job could make his own problems melt away, even if only temporarily.