he said understand, rael, that's the end of your tail

"And the kids thought I had creases."

That's as good a sign as any to the gravity: very rarely does Gray get willingly self-referential. He speaks facts, and short ones, using idiom only when it's more succinct than the actual meaning at hand.

Well. Triton supposes an "I'll miss you," no matter how gruffly given, would be a little too much to expect from the taciturn gunslinger whose companionship was, to the end, just as unlabelable as he'd like.

"I'd take more, if it'd keep you up and rumblin'."

"None of that. It's our time."

"May be. But I would."