So that made me happy but the part that really made me happy was that you wanted me to be happy. That's what Thank you means.

Gender roles suck," says Swift Fox. Then you should stop playing them, thinks Toby.

Life is warped. I'm just in sync.

But I have already told the beginning, so right now it's the middle. And Zeb is in the middle of the story about Zeb. He is in the middle of his own story. I am not in this part of the story; it hasn't come to the part with me. But I'm waiting, far off in the future. I'm waiting for the story of Zeb to join up with mine. The story of Toby. The story I am in right now, with you.

He would have died soon, but more painfully. Anyway, it was Urban Bloodshed Limitation. First rule: limit bloodshed by making sure that none of your own gets spilled.