[He just hums to acknowledge the statement, but doesn't refute it or otherwise comment.]

[His mouth quirks in one corner and he scrunches-- his face, then his shoulders, and his whole posture curves sideways in a gesture that isn't quite a shrug.] I'm not saying let it be as if nothing happened, but I'd like my boyfriend to not get arrested for manslaughter, and neither of us are real aware of the laws here.