Dryly, "You should try Dr. Pierce—Hawkeye. He'll either beat the record for taking the longest to lose patience, or the opposite, depending on the day."

Around here, probably the former, she hasn't yet seen him in quite so terrible a mood as he could sometimes fall into at the 4077.

"Well, Nyx, I'll be sure to keep that in mind. I suppose the Father must have done very well by you, not that that's a surprise."