"You are the first woman who has ever told me that," Bastien says from the ground, because even the fact that someone who would definitely like to kill him has just managed to knock him off his feet (stupid, stupid, he was too close and too focused on trying to nick her—but he's only stumbled half-down, on one knee, ready and waiting for whatever she plans to do about it) isn't enough to exhaust his capacity for genial self-deprecation.