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Clay blushes. "They just called me that, I keep asking them to stop."

"But you're older and wiser than us," Andromeda says. "We're being polite."

"I'm not older than you," Clay shakes his head. He's signing as he talks. "What are you, seventy?"

"Seventy-six in three months!" Andromeda beams. Cygnus nods in agreement. Only younger in years, he adds.

"Alright, let's argue about this somewhere else," Clay says. He looks down at Calidi and--I'm gonna do it--kisses his forehead. "Call me if you need me, I won't be far."

He gets up and ushers Cygnus and Andromeda out of the room, closing the door softly behind him.