"Discouraged affection but encouraged you to be super polite about it. Right."

There's silence in the wake of it, though, and that seems to mean that Kisame's explanation was good enough. Was callousness a sin? Tim doesn't really think so. But that doesn't matter, does it?

He takes a breath.

"Rage, I guess." It feels incomplete, but it's at least something that fucked him up. "I, uh. The people I worked for were manipulative pricks, kept most of us out of everything, lied to us. Finally blew up. Heh. Literally."