[He's just arrived and already wants no more of it. For what it's worth, he doesn't reflexively tense up at the physical contact for once, which is definitely something? Maybe the water and the pretty crystal cave has loosened him up a bit.]

I'm just going to choose to be both.
[It's his nature to stress himself out by feeling two conflicting things at the same time, after all.]

In any case, I had to haul around twenty idiots back home, I'm sure you and your two friends can't cause me more than half the trouble they did.
[Truly he speaks about his crew in such loving terms.]