"So manly," Eden whispered to himself, and I caught the reflection of his grin in the window glass, wide and unselfconscious and belonging to someone who had decided at a very young age that the world’s most obvious feelings deserved the world’s least apologetic expression.

"For the record," Percy said, his pen moving again, "Eden’s response time to the Apis question was point three seconds. That is faster than his documented reflex response during Steele’s conditioning circuit, which measures at point four seven seconds for stimulus-reaction pairs. His emotional investment in the subject produces measurably superior physical performance."

"Percy just proved scientifically that Eden is faster when he’s horny for Apis," Marco translated.

"That is a grotesque oversimplification of a nuanced data point."

"But accurate."

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