"Ready to go, lil bro?"
Ariana asked this with the specific energy of someone who had already decided they were going to enjoy themselves immensely today, and wanted to make sure everyone around them knew it from the very first sentence.
Aaron stood up, fixed his jacket, and aimed his coldest, most withering gaze directly at his sister.
Unfortunately, he was wearing sunglasses.
The sunglasses, which he wore to hide his distinctly non-human eyes, had the unfortunate side effect of making his cold, withering gaze look significantly less cold and withering than intended. Behind dark lenses, "I will end you" and "I am mildly squinting" look remarkably similar.
"Don't call me lil bro," he said.
The effect he was going for was flat and authoritative. The effect he achieved was somewhat undercut by the sunglasses situation, but he committed to it anyway.
