"Maybe I just don't think you're hot," he deadpanned.
Then he smiled, because he wasn't trying to be hurtful and he was (honestly) amused. "I'm not exactly being sucked into a pit of self-pity and despair, Koschei. I'm not going to run out and kill myself. Mostly." He stopped and thought. "Mostly I'm just tired. And you always seemed to get off on defiance - and energy. "