He needed a second or two to try to parse that. He was trying, he really was, but he was from a time before spinning wheels had caught on in France, or the Welsh had come up with their own longbows... and her wording was simply not working for him, apparently as much as his wasn't working for her.

"You... hate..." He was trying anyway; what was Dalmatians, and what did it have to do with any of this? What exactly was she protesting? "...The trees...?" At least it was clear enough that neither of them had an advantage over the other in this conversation.