[Indeed. Kid gloves aren't that helpful most of the time anyway. He spits some of the blood that got in his mouth onto the snow and goes through the question, putting it together.]
He didn't lie.
[He snaps half to himself. He doesn't like emotional either, which is part of why he's so pissed off. Part of it is just frustration at the feelings. But the statement is his way of trying to reason out how he's supposed to answer. Someone "messing him up" implies to him that they told lies to toy with his head. So if Dagger is asking what started all this, the answer is Jack, but the things said were all true things he already believed, hence the confusion and increased angry frustration that results.
When Dagger offers to keep fighting, he posits a question in return after a tense pause of dangerous staring, looking like he's about to answer with another hit to Dagger's face, but blows to his own face historically have the effect of rebooting him.]
no subject
He didn't lie.
[He snaps half to himself. He doesn't like emotional either, which is part of why he's so pissed off. Part of it is just frustration at the feelings. But the statement is his way of trying to reason out how he's supposed to answer. Someone "messing him up" implies to him that they told lies to toy with his head. So if Dagger is asking what started all this, the answer is Jack, but the things said were all true things he already believed, hence the confusion and increased angry frustration that results.
When Dagger offers to keep fighting, he posits a question in return after a tense pause of dangerous staring, looking like he's about to answer with another hit to Dagger's face, but blows to his own face historically have the effect of rebooting him.]
... What's the point of me?