[It's a quiet agreement, not very certain, because he thinks he could, if he'd been trying. He knows Aziraphale's buttons as well as Aziraphale knows his, and even though he wasn't putting that sort of conscious thought into it in the moment, there's that niggling doubt that maybe he did it sub-consciously.
He doesn't trust himself.]
No, no, you're right, we ought to be able to walk away without it turning into something worse. We've just got to not take it personally, if one of us needs that. Making it a rule might make that easier.
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[It's a quiet agreement, not very certain, because he thinks he could, if he'd been trying. He knows Aziraphale's buttons as well as Aziraphale knows his, and even though he wasn't putting that sort of conscious thought into it in the moment, there's that niggling doubt that maybe he did it sub-consciously.
He doesn't trust himself.]
No, no, you're right, we ought to be able to walk away without it turning into something worse. We've just got to not take it personally, if one of us needs that. Making it a rule might make that easier.