Ah, you’ve both been busy then. Unfortunate, but that sometimes happens....

[He’s keeping an eye on Eddie out of the corner of his eye, gauging his reactions and expression carefully.]

What has you so busy of late, is there uh— anything I can do to help with that?

[Like let whatever was trapped, rolling around in that head of his out?]

I don’t need any credit, Eddie. It’s mm... more about knowing that I did something to make things better for someone who was in trouble.

[And honestly, he’d been lucky Max finally came around to the idea of letting him do this much.]

I am very lucky though, Enis has been very helpful. She knows a lot of um— futuristic methods that I don’t understand.

... And we all can use a little assistance sometimes, regardless of how good we are at our job.