[For this, because damn it he wants her and Vita to both smile and it seems an exaggerated drawl and "cowboy talkin'" does that best, his voice and diction shift a bit.]

I find myself having to ask your pardon in advance, miss. This is pretty morbid, but... just indulge me...

Like I was, you got trained young, and trained thorough. If you were shaken up as bad as you would've been after killing somebody, 'specially someone you knew, bad enough you were running on automatic, it would've maybe just been reflex to clean up the blade and put it back, not sit there until it dried and then just throw it in with the others. Well, am I right?