"It is not off--"

Damn. It is off.



Turned away from Kara and the other Brainiac, Querl frowns to himself, and then the looks fades to something less annoyed and more...

More...something. He certainly doesn't know what it is, but if he could put a name to it, he'd say that he's feeling inadequate, especially compared to his place with the Legion, where he feels valued.

First, Zuko beats him up, then despite all he's done so far and saving Sam's life, the Master calls him out in front of the whole crew like that and he gets removed as leader of the Engineering Crew despite his genius.

And now this.

He's the smartest. He's always the smartest. And while he's longed to meet someone remotely on par with his intellectual level (that wouldn't try to kill him), he certainly hadn't been hoping for this.

It's...frustrating, to say the least.