"That's assuming that there was some limit on the number of people he could have pulled and that pulling you wouldn't just have meant one more person in with us rather than a straight swap." Though he couldn't dispute the second part of that because, yeah, it's entirely possible that Arcade COULD have done that.

The 'yellow' thing made Vance make a face. "Remind me to tell you about this mission that happened not long before you showed up," he said after a moment. "I think guys in primarily yellow outfits are going to give me the creeps for a while." Which wasn't Robbie. Would never be Robbie, even if his outfit ever was mostly yellow. "And, also, I'm not going to hatch a space lizard out of my nose. The medics already looked me over. Just didn't get cleaned up because the headache was more important."