"You can help by hauling it back. Until then you can work on coming up with a less insulting and patronizing analogy." God damn affable man. "Maybe something that doesn't imply other people are incompetent or ignorant."

He wasn't really much insulted, but he was a little. Mostly he was - well, still defensive and on edge about the powers, but he was trying not to show that one. He was also heading more or less where he thought they should be going.