At first, going by his expression, it looked like the baiting had worked about as well as anybody could have expected. "I'm not -"

But he trailed off mid-sentence. Yeah, now that she mentioned it... if he thought he knew what was giving him this headache, he did have more options than to just grin (or scowl) and bear it, didn't he?

The realisation was all the encouragement he needed. Purposefully, coattails trailing behind him, he made a beeline for the nearest speaker.