You can take interest in something without caring, yes? You wound up in a fight with something infernal.

[He pulls down the sugar and pours a bit into the vase, giving it a few sloshy swirls to dissolve it. After replacing it in the cabinet, he turns his attention to the flowers.

It will never be his day job. (Ha.) But the arrangement is sufficiently neat and orderly by the time he's done.]

I wouldn't advise taking a sniff. They're more for show, I'm afraid. Now, what do you recall of it? Did you get any blows in? Get any of its blood on you?