Taako narrows his eyes, but doesn't call her out on her 'goof' bullshit just yet. She did some penance in the form of saying a true thing--Lup IS radness eternal, thanks-- and it's not really in the immediate vibe of this convo to pursue it anyway, much as he enjoys the occasional loving callout. It's so rare to get to be the one holding the receipts.

So instead he lets some of that doubt uncoil, a very deliberate rejection of all the tension and unsurety in him, a conscious, unusually mindful decision to Just Stop for fuckin once in his life. Courtesy of Lup, his usual apotropaic for all those things, but still a victory nonetheless, right? They're both gonna Stop. Just like that first night on the beach. There's a million things here he takes issue with-- her deflection, what the absolute fuck he might have done to be proud of, etc-- But not right now. Is that an act of willpower or cowardice? Eh.

"Yeah, you're right. We're rad as hell, in any plane," he says this grudgingly, like he's losing an argument, or maybe lamenting their lot in life, being so goddamn cool and capable. But this is important, so he meets her eyes directly and works real hard on not saying some dumb shit instead of the real shit. "I guess what I was trying to say is that I'm...Look, that one got away from me, I wasn't fishing for, for some kind of pep talk. I meant thanks for fixing it, the memory. It helps."