the struggle bus

"Any work you have for BLADEs today, Professor?"

Feru asks it so politely, so even-temperedly, so patiently that B hardly thinks they even want it. Most of the other big shots demand to run the Miramobile's maintenance errands. Feru just asks, like he's confused. Like he's nervous.

But persistence like this says you want it pretty bad, even still.

Yeah, so Feru's a tough nut. What else is new? B knows if xe didn't have a future to get back to, xe'd probably be putzin' around the eggheads too, just sighing away for something to think, to see, to do.