"When I was sixteen, I had an entire working theory about the secret to Orion's sexiness was gamma radiation. That was how you made green. Gamma rays or Skrulls."

He'd be more insufferable in his response, but the look throws him. It's as if Vance is basing the appraisal on the hologram. All he can up with it is very dark humor (the body paint would hide the scars nicely), and Robbie would prefer to not open up a can of worms, thanks.

"Yeah, you've never read it. 's okay - I still think you're cool." Robbie is quite pleased to have one up on Vance. "It doesn't have anything to do with the Orions, I guess, but we were talking about slaves. There's sort of a slow slave-to-freedom arc for golems in the Discworld series."

Almost to himself, he adds, "Man, it's really start to bum me out, how hard it is to pull off a good reference here."