"You could beat me." And Matt would give it an honest try. A few times he played pool and meant it ended up to be reasonably, suspiciously successful for a blind man. He's no professional by any stretch.

"Oh... with the pancakes right?" If he's not mistaken. "I've been there a time or two. Eating almost every meal there wouldn't be bad on anything but the waistline. " Such good, hearty home cooking. Matt's full right now but it's enough to get into his head to step in again.

He listens. That sounds a lot like Samus or what he can glean from what he's talked with her about. She is very levelheaded which means that when she's not it is a significant difference. "Some things you just... you're sensitive about. And being angry, well, it happens. You're more than entitled to it," says a man with his own temper issues.