The class was ending and the range was emptying. The students gave Rufus and Tseng a wide birth, though their instructors nodded at them respectfully. Rufus was quiet until everyone had filed out except for those whose job it was to put the range to rights before the next group came in.

He was going to have to be more careful, he supposed. No one was supposed to have caught his 'flashes of brilliance' as Tseng put it.

"Well," he said wryly. "You've got me there."