[...Wait. Why is he annoyed? Normally Joseph would just spit out any old answer whether it was right or not, but he's paying more attention than normal to this entire conversation. He's annoyed because...because...]
Because I don't really care what you think about it.
[Good Lord, it's a good thing this a texting conversation because Joseph is immediately trying to figure out if Caesar meant to send that or if he even knows what it is.]
You can't even tell what that face is, can you? [Except how can he not? No, he just has to not understand. That's all.] That's not an angry face, dumbass. Look, I'll send you what I'm using.
[He comes very close to typing out Why did YOU send it to ME?, but he stops himself. The question's implied anyway, isn't it? There's no need to ask directly.]
[...What? Joseph is intensely frowning at his communicator again. He's starting to think maybe text wasn't the right way to go about this. It's too difficult to get a good read on Caesar even if it's giving him time to think about what's happening.]
[Maybe it's the time to think that's the problem. After probably too-long-to-be-natural delay,]
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