In that case, perhaps you ought to learn when to be scared, after all.

[Her words are as condescending as his tone, but she doesn't bother with tone at all—she is nonchalant, just dry if anything. Then she smiles, scant, not showing her teeth.]

It's not so bad, getting bitten because you're scary. That's what scared things do, of course. One should really expect it, if one tends to be a spook.