Mordecai looked at him with the expression of someone who has been given a statement that is both true and specifically designed to be acceptable and knows both things simultaneously.
"You're very good at that," Mordecai said.
"What am I good at?" Rex said. "Repeat it again."
"You are good at saying things that are accurate and useful, and that also happen to be precisely what I need to prevent me from pushing back harder than I am," Mordecai said.
Rex said nothing.
"I'm aware of it," Mordecai said.
"I just can't identify where the accuracy ends and the management begins." He paused. "Can you?"
Rex looked at him for a moment.
"Most of the time," Rex said.
Mordecai absorbed the information as someone does when they receive an honest answer to a question they asked, fully aware that they might not want the truth.
He appeared to be on the verge of saying something further when the alert reached Rex's foresight approximately two seconds before it manifested physically.
