He shook his head.

“None at all?”

“Didn’t need to.  Didn’t want to.  Felt better about keeping an eye out for trouble than about sleeping.”

Didn’t need to? Weird.

“Trickster and Ballistic are out there.”

“I know.  I saw them step outside after Rachel came back.”

There’s no way they’d let him keep the lookout after what he’s been through.

I smiled a little.  “Wasn’t so long ago that you were getting on my case for not sleeping enough, mandating that I get a certain number of hours before we moved on the Nine.”

Look, on one hand, in all fairness to Brian, you didn’t.

On the other hand I can absolutely related to the satisfaction of turning the tables on the “Krix go to sleep” crowd.

He didn’t respond, and he didn’t move.  I couldn’t read his expression.  Had I said the wrong thing?  Should I not have mentioned the Nine?

I guess he’s not in the mood for vaguely humoristic nostalgia.

Oh, or what Taylor just said. That works too.

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