A minute or more
You gonna kiss her, Captain?
Simple questions irritated him. Not because they were a testament to his inability to answer them or to lack of wherewithal that those around held him in, but they didn’t really need to be answered. Questions like that were better left unasked, meager vocalizations that should have been snipped on the tongue rather than given life with words. As anyone knows, words give way to thoughts and thoughts sometimes give way to less… Intelligent actions.