"Ah-hahahaha!" Wil was, in fact, very proud of having received a beating so quickly. Driving Ari to violence was practically a pastime. She might be some big deal in the theatre, but he remembered when she would do just about anything for the thrill of it (as long as no one she knew saw). Then she was singing songs behind him and, he was pretty sure, had actually spent nights sleeping on the ground.
Some people moved up in the world. Him, too, once his ship was mobile again. "Y'can always sleep on him, Dove!" He was still laughing at her. Every second you held it in meant two more seconds you spent laughing once you let it out. "Bet it's a fuckin' gel, anyways. Y'gotta be there t'hold his hand when he's tryin'na run from the fuckin' thing!"