Terezi and Linden are just similar enough to be able to share this kind of banter, it seems, and Linden finds it every bit as gratifying as the troll girl seems to. He relates closely to so few.

"That's pretty accurate, actually," he says with a shrug. "He was beating an Avox over a broken mug, I tried to pick up the pieces, he grabbed me by the arm and tried to pull me up, and that doesn't go over so well with some Victors."