Another sympathetic wince at no chance of getting some of the more extreme changes reversed in exchange for good behavior. Ah well. It was a good idea. At the comment about being fine, though, Jimmy raises an eyebrow.

"It's.... It's not about grading on a curve here." He pauses and lifts the right edge of his hat high enough to for his new ear to slip out and twitch a little before he tucks it away again. "I freaked out when that happened, and that's nothing, relatively speaking."

He sighs. "I'm sorry, I'm being too blunt about this, but I've had a pretty good look at when 'I'm fine' goes off the rails."