Mildmay can be just as peevish. He's tempted to be-- he's tempted to throw it all right back in Felix's face-- but that's just the blood getting to him. The thought that everyone's looking at his face even more than they do already... he puts the thought aside before he does something stupid with it.

He chooses, instead, to answer Felix directly. He's tried indirectness, but it hasn't worked. "Y'know what I was doing, before I met you? I mean, I ever told you? After I left Kolkhis, but before everything else?"