"I used to have to go on bus trips to get to international fencing comps- the last one was... to Cologne. About eight hours, we stopped in Luxembourg, and so much of the trip was boring as shit but. Some of it was nice? One of my teammates brought one of those old DS things and we kind of sat around her watching her play like, nintendogs or whatever."

It's a fond memory. At that revelation, though, even Darcy's disaffected cool-kind persona has to shift a little.

"Dude that's so cute, what the fuck."