Eridan quirked his eyebrows at the quip, hummed down the metal. Licked his lightly throbbing teeth as Eddie wiped.

"Besides the obvious?" A quirk of his smile, not quite a sneer but hovering around the genus. "Not that you'd get the pleasure. I've got standards, and they sure don't bend for guys who live in shitty one bedrooms in Queens."

Cavalier in the face of his (probably briefly) prolonged existence, Eridan retrieved his fallen cigarette and made a show of brushing it off before returning it to his mouth. Dingy carpet from shitty one bedrooms in Queens, and whatnot.

"Hey, maybe you need someone to talk to besides yourself." A lean inwards. "What do I know. You gonna light me up or not?"