"You tried to take on someone with an axe. With your fists." Far from thinking it was stupid, he clearly looked tickled that she'd had the nerve. "I'd say to remind me never to get on your bad side but I figured that out when I saw you unleash unholy hellfire on that lab."

She just kept saying things that impressed him. Getting a dinosaur to bite her to get her magic staff out to fight (he assumed, given what she'd said of her parents) corrupt cops, trying to take on someone with an axe with just her fists...

Maybe it wasn't smart, but a lot of people curled up and caved in to fear when they were that desperate. Instead, she tried to deck people.

"Most of the rest of mine aren't that exciting." He pointed to one on his fore-arm. "Training. I didn't back off and tap out when I should've and Leo nicked my arm pretty bad. He spent the whole next hour apologizing."

He pointed to a thin one on his right upper arm. "Ninja." And one on his shoulder. "Ninja." One on his thigh. "Also a ninja."

He pointed to another on his right hand. "Robot ninja." To the burn near his left elbow. "Alien robot."

For a moment, he wondered if he should say it, worried that it'd make him look stupid but he found that he didn't care. So far, he'd told her some pretty serious stuff and she hadn't looked at him like he was a weak or weird or crazy. It was just strangely easy to talk to her, so much that he didn't feel as guarded as he usually was.

Besides, if anything, she'd just laugh and he...he kinda liked seeing her laugh.

He pointed to the little scar of a scrape on his chin. "LARPing. I ran into a wall." He added quickly, "It wasn't my fault, though."