"If you expect actual sympathy for them from me, you're fishing in the wrong--oh bugger." There was Gideon, giving him the come-here look, and not the one that led to talking to a pretty girl, either. "Speaking of brothers and necessary conversations, apparently I'm due for one. Possibly Mum isn't happy about me coming with Laur Fletwock. She always gives generously and she gets great press, so they ought to be happy with her. We'll finish this conversation later?"