Noble took a sip of coffee and watched Ford carefully. "Oh," he said; this was not a conversation he'd expected to have at all, much less before the sun was even up. "I — I really didn't want to scare you. For what it's worth." And maybe it wasn't worth much. Noble's family wasn't supposed to have to worry about him ever, and he'd broken that, and he'd been trying to recover things ever since. And Ford didn't have a right to tell him how to do his job, and Noble stood by that, and by having tried the potion — but he hadn't wanted to scare his brother, either.

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