[a touch flustered, trying to hide it in a breathy laugh:] We-well, not that, no...I mean--I don't really have a lot of friends in the first place, but the ones I do have aren't...heroic so much as...foolhardy? And it's. It's pretty stressful?

Honestly, I wouldn't mind a proper hero; I hear they're quite handy. And...you know. All those heroic tropes.