Xander: I don't apologize for kidnapping you or for saving your life.

Xander: The natives have certainly been trying to poison you against me. What is it that you're calling me in your head now? It isn't Evil Overlord.

Kore: What do you call yourself, Ves?

Xander: Doesn't sound like you're all that frightened, does it? I can make you as afraid of me as they are, you know.

Kore: And this was going so well.

Xander: Doesn't take much. Maybe I am their mercurial barbarian with no sense of humor.

Xander: Want to feel it? ...no effort... Look at the situation from my perspective...

Kore: Please, you're just trying to distract me. You must know what I'm going to tell you. Come on, higher. Let's get sky high.

Xander: We both know it's best for you to wait a few weeks...let that concussion heal. You were dying!

Xander: I'm not hurting you. I haven't harmed you. I have been a most gracious and hospitable host...

Kore: You have. Come on, higher.

Xander: Don't give me that fake smile...I know...

Kore: Then don't want to see it so badly.

Xander: I can't help my feelings. Why should I hide them? Just because you've never met an alpha...

Kore: Don't flatter yourself.

Kore: Or did you think that this was the first time...that I've been kidnapped by a psychopath?

Xander: Really? So you're an old hand at this. Makes it simple.

Kore: Yes. And I came to tell you a story...

Kore: ...before you do something very, very stupid.

Xander: I caught Rhelan's shiftiness earlier. And that little demo. You're trying to use his fright-train wreck of a mind to set him and I up with conflicting stories. Bet it'll work?

Kore: Him and me. He and I, him and me.