And Havelock thought his accent was a little too upper-class.

The young gentleman is dressed in a style not quite what he is used to, but the manner is more familiar than a good part of the people he meets in Milliways, enough to identify him- wealthy, well-born, no combat experience whatsoever, idiot.

Not necessarily in that order.

"That's to be expected," he says clinically, eyeing it, but making no move to get closer. "Still, you don't appear to have hit any major blood vessels."

You can tell, by the way it isn't spurting. In spite of the apparent depth of the wound.