[Dixon may be older than Tim, but Tim certainly has him beat in terms of a commanding presence. It's not that Dixon stands down, exactly, but he doesn't try to shove past Tim to prove himself again.]

You can try talking nice to them and get your head cut off, I'm not going to stop holding the line just because you want to treat them with kid's gloves.

[They are certainly not people in Dixon's mind, and even if they were, they attacked first. Retaliating with lethal force is justified. It's not only self-defense, but justice to respond to an assault with disproportionate force; how else to establish control of a situation?

He watches as Bart and Sothe head through the path Toothless cut, then turns back to see Tim fighting the Wheelers. The two of them is not a combination he would have chosen, nor that he likes now, but he does flank Tim to use the shield to try and give some cover from the magical bullshit the fairies are firing off from above.]

How's it going, Pollyanna? [he spits.]