Rex thought about this honestly.
"I've been doing it long enough that it has become an unconscious habit," he said. "It's just how I move through situations."
Mireya looked at him. "Do you ever get tired of it?"
"Hell nah," Rex said.
"That's what's frightening about you," she said. "Not the canyon. Not the ring. The fact that you don't get tired of it."
She paused.
"Everyone else eventually gets tired. Eventually they want to stop calculating and just be somewhere."
Rex said nothing to that.
"Nerith says nature takes your side," she said.
Rex said nothing.
"She wasn't saying it to me in a cruel way," Mireya said. "She was saying it because she was frustrated and because she meant it."
"And it frustrated me more than everything else that was said tonight because I don't know what to do with it." She paused. "She believes in you the way people believe in things they've felt rather than reasoned toward."
"And she's not an easy person to fool."
"No," Rex said. "She isn't."
