Theo laughed but it was short and sounded nastily sharp like a pocketful of scissorblades, cardboard like it was somone else using his mouth to laugh for themselves. "There isn't a safety. Aren't nightmares when you're waking, aren't they?" he snarled this last part but then flinched back from Niki's withdrawing hand in the next momentas though th strang boy had reached to hit him.
He bowed his had, calm suddenly, and rubbed at his cheek as though he really had been hit. "Not, in my head." he said, and it could have been 'Nott' as easily.