For Sasha, actually. [Which is pointed enough when he sits up long enough to angle a look her way. Vaughn and Yvette are as close as anyone gets to being his family, and some part of him feels guilty for where they've wound up, voluntarily or not.

He shouldn't have asked Yvette for more when she was already being watched - now there's no real chance to tell her.] But whatever.

We go back a ways. Hyperion's not a company ladder you climb over night, and too many people in it are making the same leap at the same time. It can get nasty. A little cutthroat. Having someone behind you that you can trust...I dunno, it helps.

Vaughn's a good guy.