(Bruce likes them, too. Don't tell anyone.)

"That's good." Soft, accepting; even if she's teasing him, he really doesn't want to freeload. A normal person might think there's something to this that goes beyond their loyalties into something like mutual comfort at the familiarity, but Bruce isn't normal, and he's not about to have that thought. It's better to skirt those sorts of ideas at a distance. He can ignore them that way.

"I'm worse when I'm bored."