"Me too," he decided, letting the phone fall to the bed so that he could wrap his other arm around her and bury his face in her hair and breathe her in and try for the life of him to figure out why it felt like he had to choke up his guts just so that he'd be able to inhale again. Make room, or whatever. "Kid deserves... deserved..."

He shrugged. There wasn't a thought there, beyond maybe that Reno could have somehow done more, or shouldn't have send Rede back, or any one of a million things that he'd said already anyhow.

"S' for the best."

And maybe it even was.