AS FOOLPROOF AS POSSIBLE

ASTRID'S face was quickly filled with black lines when he heard that question.  "Andreas, stop asking about my sanity before I decided to really punch you in the face."

"Can you blame me?  You're saying illogical things that you wouldn't even say under normal circumstance.  How do you expect me not to react?" Reas said incredulously.  "Did the craziness of that jerk rubbed off on you for some reason?"

Astrid smiled helplessly at his brother.  "Reas, you do know that I'm not some pure angel full of kindness and innocence, right?" he asked.  "My gentleness is mostly just superficial.  I'm not even that kind.  The only people I have treated wholeheartedly are our family members and Uncle Leigh.  Only you and them.  Not the classmates we had at school nor the people we've met since we got here.