At seeing the motion and how Gavin tenses up, Sam frowns. That had been no different than other times he's done it, or given Gavin a punch in the arm. To see that the elf is now reacting like he was suddenly going to be assaulted?

Sam gives a heavy sigh and folds his arms over his chest and flops down on the bench next to him. He's taking away his arms and his height at the moment, hoping to see that Gavin isn't taking him as a threat.

"If that's what he's thinking he would've done it already." Trying to come up with any excuse he can, and not even reasonable ones. "Why do you think Maxwell doesn't care about you, or what you had?"