"All right," Arthur mutters, embarrassed, as Bash audibly works to calm down. "All right, any time you feel like getting that out of your system. I-- I don't know, I always got the impression as a child that practically everyone was at risk of it." You know, the same way school anti-drug programmes make it sound like everyone is smoking weed.

It's really not just a regular thing? Oh christ. Admittedly Arthur's never really been able to get a second opinion on that theory, because he was never quite ready to shoulder the consequences of finding out he was wrong, but uh... compared to what he would have faced back home, laughing is fine. This is fine actually.

"And that's... that's really not frowned on in most worlds?" Arthur didn't mean for that to sound hopeful. But it definitely sounds a little bit hopeful.