Well, shit. He'd tipped too much of his hand with that one, hadn't he.

He can turn this around. Make it look like it's the most obvious thing in the world and Locus is the one in the slow group. The tilt of his helmet changes, and he's back to the wow you're an idiot look. "No, they didn't," he says, flat and sarcastic, "because it's hard to find time to have a heart to heart in the middle of an active war zone."