As the giant disappeared revealing the young woman controlling it, I removed my gas mask again and nodded a greeting.
"My apologies ma'am." I said, somewhat sarcastically. " But when you've spent 3 years fighting for your life at every moment, risking an unspeakable death or worse if you let your guard down, forced to defend yourself with whatever you can find rather than with God-like powers, fighting tends to become something of an innate instinct. Still, if everyone else can suppress the urge to disembowel me I guess I can do the same." I holstered my revolver, but stayed tense and alert.
"you're making me very nervous with those artillery guns pointed at us by the way." I said, addressing the giant war machine. (stormwalker)