Rex had been thinking about Gelion since the canyon. The specific shape of Gelion's arrangement with the Legion and the second-stratum contacts and the fourteen months of carefully built infrastructure inside Mordecai's monitoring network had been a thread he'd left unresolved because the expedition had occupied the available attention.
"I fucking forget about that slimy asshole, and... Mordecai isn't equipped to handle Gelion long-term," Rex said. "He's a fucking bum... every single fucking time I have to come back into the Underlayer."
"I have to do all the fucking work because all of them are fucking frauds that need to get killed!" Rex said with a high tone. "And not just that... every time they spill some bullshit... it only made my head spin around."
"I know, I know, but hey... about what you said... Mordecai isn't equipped to handle many things long-term," Lustia said. "That's not news."
