Oh... [ He shakes his head again, touched by the sentiment, but waving it off as unnecessary. ] Now don't beat yourself up, there's nothin' you could've done. I don't even know what I did, so...

[ He sighs a bit, as if the whole thing was more inconvenient than traumatizing... which, well, in a way? It's a bit of both, really, but Ray is unfortunately no stranger to that line of thinking, to feeling like he had to wedge himself into a similarly cookie-cutter, "acceptable" sort of shape. ]

Anyway, never mind all that. [ With a flip of his wrist. ] I'm just about done for my lunch break, would you care to join me?