"Why when you say it that way does it sound like an insult?" Not that he sounds the least bit bothered by that either, just amused.

"You know, therein speaks a man that has never been beat up for breaking things while trying to learn about them," he points out. Maybe it's happened. Maybe it's a fear. Either way, he's not being that guy. "I'm actually working on the stove in my house first, since currently it doesn't have electricity but I know some that do. So it has to be capable of it. Not like we see maintenance men walking around."

That gives Jake pause, considering that. "That I've met? No, but there's a few I haven't talked to and not sure I would want to. And not like the guy with horns, because he's pretty cool for a guy with horns wider than a doorway."