Anger teaches. They've learned things about each other.

The kind-of-laugh. He's seen it before; despite himself, he likes it, liked it even in Dubai. It's always gratifying to make someone laugh when it's clear they aren't used to it. He would look away sometimes, jaw tense, and Daniel would wonder if he was trying not to kill him, or trying not to laugh.

I sometimes enjoyed our conversation, through the boy Daniel sent back.

Eyebrows go up.

"If we say it does."

Thinking about it after all, Armand?