[Keep up that sort of wording and insinuation and you're going to make him sick.
You know, if he could hear her thoughts.
Which he can't]

If you were, we might have to revisit the mortality of your prized fruit creatures. [He was kidding. Presumably. He still had no desire to kill anything that could stare back at him- currently]

It would take a lot more than you to wound my pride. [Something he shouldn't have argued with really]

It was just a dream. [Replying coolly as if it didn't matter one bit, though truthfully nightmares had always plagued him.. long before the time she referenced]