Togusa grips the coffee cup tight. Even with all the sweetness of the cream, he barely tastes it, the tang of adrenaline overpowering anything else. "If Retrospec is getting us ready for something, I wish they would get on with telling us what it is."

"And stop crippling people in the meantime. I'm usually the first to try to find what their reason is, but this second? I don't give a damn." A deep sigh.

"I had to talk to Barnes' dad, James couldn't come up with a good explanation on his own. I have never spun a lie so fast in my life. But it's fucked up that I have to lie in the first place."