[he's feeling petulant enough not to respond at first, but the urge lasts only a few seconds. Rincewind receives praise so rarely that it often raises nothing but suspicion in him.

Praise from someone he trusts is a different, even rarer matter entirely; he trusts Frederick Chilton.]

We're both survivalists. You've pointed that out before. So just. Don't forget it, all right? People with short knives instead become very good at getting close.

...And you know I wouldn't warn if it weren't that I that I valued being your friend as well.

[and it's not jealousy. It's not.]