Stumps noticed that Micah was figuring things out by looking at his reaction and behavior, so he clamped his mouth shut and simply glared at Micah.
"Are you going to try and keep quiet?"
"..."
Micah looked at the wrench in his hand for a moment before looking back at Stumps.
"You know, I think we might have gotten off on the wrong foot here. We don't necessarily need to antagonize each other."
"..."
"You seem to think there are only two options in regard to our relationship. Either you and the ones backing you squash me, or the opposite happens. But what's stopping us from working together?"
Stumps was still quiet, but Micah noticed his expression change as he began thinking about it.
"Of course, it won't work if we want different things or something that there's only one of. But we have to find out what we both want in order to decide where to go, right?"
"Okay. So, what do you want?"
