[Clem looks stressed. This is a reasonable, but still unacceptable reaction to the situation they just came out of, so far as Clayton is concerned. He feels like that hammer is a bad influence. The hammer does not make problems go away, Clem. Please put it away.]
[As he figures such an argument won't go over well with her, Clayton instead tires a more gentle approach. She's one of the first he comes to after searching the gas station, right after the more impressionable Quark on his list of "children I should worry about." Clem's at least more independent-minded. This does not stop Clayton from treating her delicately.]
Hey, Clem. [Her smile is returned with an equally tired one, which Clayton takes as an invitation to sit down next to her along the wall.] Keepin' the windows safe?
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[As he figures such an argument won't go over well with her, Clayton instead tires a more gentle approach. She's one of the first he comes to after searching the gas station, right after the more impressionable Quark on his list of "children I should worry about." Clem's at least more independent-minded. This does not stop Clayton from treating her delicately.]
Hey, Clem. [Her smile is returned with an equally tired one, which Clayton takes as an invitation to sit down next to her along the wall.] Keepin' the windows safe?