[He didn't expect much to come of it. A little back and forth maybe, before another inevitable disagreement. A switch in format isn't anticipated and when he responds in kind, it's clear enough that Cain is in the library somewhere.

The first thing he does is softly snort.]

Had worse said to me by worse people.

[He shrugs, then the camera view shifts as he... leans the comm against a book, apparently.]

I haven't gone easy on any warden that's been assigned to me. Don't appreciate the whole forced interaction thing. [And he won't apologise for that, not yet at least, but he's still feeling this out and deciding if he's going to.] But yeah, I know what being in a shit place with nobody on your side can do to someone. Don't worry about it.