"Yeah. Kind of amazing... I was so close to having the power to reshape worlds..."

He lifted a hand as if he were reaching for the memory of that power, unusually subdued. Then, coming to his senses once again, he chuckled and flicked his hand away from that imaginary point dismissively.

"Thing is, it didn't turn out bad either. A play like that is generally all or nothing, but everything went so crazy I didn't have any real fallout for trying to haul Tee Cee into myself. So nothing lost except an opportunity, and there'll be more of those."