[ The thing about this is that they've done this song and dance so many times that Royce is able to recognize when it's starting to get bad. And rather than just let it get even worse, Royce takes a deep breath to just calm himself down, and scrubs at his own face. ]

Sorry. [ Royce says, after a moment. ] You have to just give me a second to ease back into it, Alfie. You caught me off guard.

I don't want to fight. I just go slower than everybody else.