He can appreciate bluntness, as bluntness has the favorable tendency to cut cleanly over useless social requirements and or niceties and arrange everything surely and visibly, a neat, clean drape over the obvious pain and subsequent discomfort. There is no need for them to discuss what neither of them are willing to discuss. It is well understood.

"You have made quite the habit of spontaneously saving mine, even when I've specifically told you not to," Rush answers dryly. "Though if present memory serves, that count still seems to be rather skewed in your favor."