"For the most part?" Tseng's eyebrows raised just slightly, in something that could be taken as amusement only by those who knew him very well. "You're the biggest pain in my ass since Reno. You're an irreverent, disrespectful, troublesome brat who manages to make me question my job almost on a daily basis."

He let that hang in the air between them for a moment. When he spoke up again, it was in a much quieter tone.

"Which belies the flashes of brilliance that you show when you're confident enough that nobody will notice. And neither of those aspects of you have ever suggested that you're the sort to mope. Either you don't care enough about anything, or you have more important things to care about."