[He is very bad at smalltalk, it's true, and on some level, he's known that this call--though perhaps about whether or not he's alive--is not about whether he's settling in or how he's doing. Good information to know, sure, but not the reason why he's calling.]
That's ominous.
[A half-joke, because he knows that Venom isn't going to say something like that if it's not important.]
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That's ominous.
[A half-joke, because he knows that Venom isn't going to say something like that if it's not important.]
Go ahead.