At the admission of touchiness, he relents immediately, though he keeps a couple of eyes and a mouth toward her. "I apologize," he says once more, using that mouth rather than the main one for sake of clarity. "It's true that some of us don't really have an option, but I would have chosen for myself to go into this field for personal reasons. I want to use the shape I was born with to help people and the academy was the best way I had to do that."