[ Daryl's expression only hardens a little at the guy's little freak out and near-slip, but it isn't like he wasn't used to being seen as worthless before the world ended and he'd developed a purpose. What was worse, he couldn't even argue that people were wrong to have seen him that way. ]

Mightn't?

[ He repeats it flatly, both out of disbelief and because of the particular phrasing. ]

Don't know. I prefer not bein' tortured to bein' fed like a pet. Ain't like I can't take care of that myself.