"Spinning a line about how you need each other and are partners and nothing that can't survive you deserves what it gets?" Yeah. Locus shared those tidbits too- and remembering the soft stilted uncertainty in his voice, the tension around his eyes whenever he thinks someone's using doublespeak-

When he doesn't understand, when he's uncomfortable because he doesn't trust what's being said? Every fucking time he second guesses the things that come his way? It's this asshole's fault. Remembering that makes it easy to start charging the marbles in his back palm, to brace himself for a fight.

To grin so hard behind his visor that it's shit eating entirety is audible through the commline. A quick command has a tickertape warning sent through to Delta, Azucar, and Locus. 'Got Felix. Will Handle'. "Fucked if I know! He's with his other bestie right now and we both know more than enough to keep him away from you, Felix."