[ Severus does not respond right away, but when he does, it's - surprisingly - voice in kind. He still doesn't like it much, but his head's been hurting enough that he's willing to lay off squinting at tiny screens here and there. ]
Takes more than that. [ Dryly. ] Which side of the ordeal did you fall on?
Corralling sleepwalkers. [Which was more involved than he really wanted to be, but:] As inconvenient as it was, I believe it was still preferable to whatever they were experiencing.
Dealing with the same. [ 'Corralling' sounds more pleasant than it probably was for anyone. But who knows, Gold strikes Severus as someone awfully hands-off. ] And the cause.
[That surprises him. He doesn't usually like to be surprised, but with the circumstances on the ship, he'd rather this kind of surprise than the regular unpredictable incidents.]
Directly, or was it another case of leaping through invisible hoops?
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Takes more than that. [ Dryly. ] Which side of the ordeal did you fall on?
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Yourself?
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Directly, or was it another case of leaping through invisible hoops?