He's my friend.

[ So is Chloe, most days, but it's hard to remember that when her head is full of a simmering cloud of anger. ]

And you put a knife in him for no better reason than he annoyed you. What're you gonna do next, punch Methuselah? Kill the Mountie's dog? I hear there's a bunch of puppies that just got born, you could go kick some of them.