[ Eddie is quick enough to catch the backhanded compliment, but he’s just as quick to let it go with a laugh. Henry is a strange man, extremely hard to read to the point that Eddie is convinced no one here really knows him, but Eddie has never taken comments like that too seriously. You can’t please everyone, even if he’s convinced a Metallica tune should and would do the trick with most people. ]

To be totally straight with you, I’m not real big on parties, so, uh…

[ He takes a moment to skim the busy crowd of people going about this especially grim celebration. His real concern is finding Steve and confirming he’s doing alright. Eddie basically dragged him out here in an attempt to distract him from the thoughts of whatever happened in the pit, and he’d feel pretty guilty if the guy had a panic attack or something. ]

Unless someone comes asking for an encore? This is probably it. One night only.