Brainiac 5 sighed but managed (just) to keep his comments to himself. If Venom wanted to ignore the real issue in favour of a minor point, then he wasn't going to continue arguing over it. Not when it had already given him a good idea of the type of person he was working with here.

"I already had returned to the topic you initially wanted to discuss," he pointed out instead. "I said that I had been perfectly happy to work with you, and I'd already said what I was attempting tonight and previously laid down what my conditions were. You were the one who apparently felt the need to 'spur me'-" The inverted commas couldn't have been more pronounced if he'd tried. "-with some bizarre implication about my work."

He settled back in his chair and eyed the mask of hair obscuring the other man's face. "So do you have anything else to add? Or are we done here?"