Grif snorted like a bratty teenager, but held in an eyeroll. It was all so much more optimistic than he was comfortable being.

"I'm starting to think most people just get luckier than I do, Rich. That's how the world works. Hopefully you guys are enough to balance me out in that department. I'm not really a miracles guy."

It was kind of a joke, one of the bitter ones Grif usually told when things got too serious for him. He took an equally serious bite of pudding.