I'vve tried to teach him about black feelins, but he really doesn't understand or respect it. But I generally think that's true. Maybe one day his blood pusher'll turn black for someone, evven if the blood it pumps is red as red can be.

[He frowns at the reminder] Wwhat wwe had... isn't really goin' awway. But it ain't a quadrant kind a thing. Wwe both knoww that.