That earns an utterly confused blink, his eyes drifting tentatively back up to Remus' face to try to read for the lie he's certain is there. Those words don't make sense, after all.

"I'm a prick-- literally all th'time, Remus," he replies, "I'm rude and I talk back-- all the time and never say things right. 's not about what I was saying, it was just-- the tone. Maybe it was-- the right thing t'say, but I didn't say it respectfully. 'm not good at that. How else were they supposed to remind me?"