He smiled grimly and a little dangerously, his amber eyes hard and cold. All of a sudden he did not look much like a jokester at all. "I was terrible at playing their game to begin with. I'm not going to play it on top of everything else they threw us into by shoving us into this oven."

Besides, if there was any point when they were going to be out of range, it was now. He looked away, more dismissive than evasive. "Comparing me to you is like comparing humans to dogs, nuclear warheads to tanks or a galaxy to a sun. The difference between us isn't what matters."