[ So much happens all at once. Maybe it's not "so much" objectively, but it's definitely happening all at once. Stede gets yanked in with a sincerely startled oop. Ed's hand probably does keep him from knocking himself out on the bar, but the cool thing about that is that since Stede didn't get knocked out, he can pretend he's very savvy and avoided it on purpose.

Ed yell at Stede? Ed yell at Stede like the enemy? Jail for Ed for a thousand more years. Okay, not really, Stede just makes a journey through startled and kind of offended and visibly confused on his path to full comprehension.

And here he was momentarily wondering if he'd somehow managed to hit a sore spot by being at someone's disposal. Wow. Ed is so good at basically everything that's cool.

Like theatre, and having big brown eyes. ]

Yeah, well! [ Well!!!!!! ] I'd challenge you to say that to my pretty boy face, but you've clearly already done that. So. Unhand me, you...

[ What's a general Gentleman Pirate-y insult he could use that wouldn't be too mean to Ed. ]

You cur!

[ Sure. Yes. That wasn't too mean. They are both definitely equally very good at acting. ]