"Yeah, but too much salt'll kill just about anything." Including people, if you wanted to get into the whole sodium-slash-high blood pressure thing. If he planned on it, however, he stopped when Astarion turned, the expression on the mask switching sides. (o_O)

"What? Do I have something on my face?"

Immediately, he reached to fit his fingers between the spikes on the lower half of the mask. It was hard to tell whether or not he was seriously wondering or playing into Astarion's confusion for shits and giggles. Really, it could've gone either way.