There's a hot second where Wash wants to push this guy back from the voidblob - if that thing gets back to its feet, he doesn't need to be doing defense and triage - but he fights it down when the blob does not move upon being poked.

(This is when the horror movie jump scare would happen, if there was going to be one.)

(There isn't one.)

(He breathes.)

"Because it's a last resort, not an opening salvo." It's a flat answer - he didn't read any insult in the question, so he doesn't bother putting any in his answer. "What was yours?"