The way Dorian says that makes the Bull crack a smile, and the expression actually feels genuine. Yeah, doing this was a good idea. Doing this with Dorian was a good idea. Yeah he can get exasperation from other people, but no one he travels with these days sounds less like they're playing along than Dorian does.

"Hey, you don't want me to go there, you've got to specify that right off," he says, a little bit of the smile creeping into his voice. "And you've still got to guess what and whose, unless you're giving up this early."