[ How much salience what what? Silco is reminded, in this moment, how much he disliked this boy. Mind, he'd held a touch of a grudge at him, when he'd tried to hit on him, a man who seemed to radiate hostility to most, but he had been useful, from time to time. Silco had though this loyalty wavering, but he'd sold someone who had been kind to him once.

He was easily led, in Silco's mind. Really, his disgust with Matt was because he was...

Well.

Soft. ]

Right.

Well! [ His hands clapped together. ] You don't have to worry, I hate everyone equally. You just happen to either be pretending not to recognize me, or you truly don't. Only one of these are insulting.

[ It's. It's not the lying one. ]

So don't bother apologizing. That's meaningless here.