[And that's Octavia - and she made a crack about it, and she's wailing over something and yes he had every bit of this coming - he connects to respond not flushing, he hasn't the remotest idea if he can even do that, but something in his head careening with embarrassment on his end - she'd thought is was disturbing enough if he does recall when it wasn't nearly like this...]

I'm -- sorry -- you - had to see that -- Tavia... [Falling straight into that thought in this case.] -- I panicked over nothing, there was - no -- reason -- for me to scare people. [It coasts back into his more normal tone, frank, but still stilted as he says that - God in the context that sounds wrong somehow...]