He'd started to open his mouth to reply to the dismissal, when she said that.

He paused a moment, trying to figure out how to respond to that one, opened his mouth... closed it again. Eyed her.

"A lot of the people where I'm from are blue."

He's pretty sure she's messing with him. Unfortunately for her, he's not much into teasing people back. His brothers never joked with him that way, sorry.