Doesn't mince words or handshakes, apparently. Yeah, Saïx would have liked this guy. If Saïx were capable of liking anything, that is. For what it's worth, Axel wouldn't say he sees this sort of concision a challenge so much as something to be balanced. Brevity certainly has its place, but he likes words a little too much to use so few of them at a time, in most cases.

"Well I do now, that I've apparently walked through the same section of them twelve times," Axel grumbles, scratching his head, and then shrugs one shoulder. "No, not really," he amends. "Last time we made a trip from the station the whole damn airship crashed, so this is my first visit that didn't involve hitting the swamp at terminal velocity."