[It's a bit delayed, given that this is being processed through a third party both ways, but an answer comes eventually, in the same way as it had before.]
No, that's quite all right.
Did you think that I would be so easily destroyed? That you would get to leave this encounter in a blaze of glory? Real life doesn't work that way, I'm afraid.
[action]
No, that's quite all right.
Did you think that I would be so easily destroyed? That you would get to leave this encounter in a blaze of glory? Real life doesn't work that way, I'm afraid.