She stared at him for one more second. After that, she opened her folio and started to write on it.
Rick looked at her. "Are you... writing this down right now?"
"I'm writing down the specifications for the ward framework before I forget them, and it seems like the suppression pattern I used on the breach was new, and I need to write it down."
"You just got through a wave of corruption, and now you're doing paperwork."
"The paperwork is time-sensitive."
Rick looked up at the sky for a moment, tried to think of something to say, but couldn't, so he looked back down.
Sebastian came up to him and stood quietly next to him. "Look at her left hand," he said to Rick only.
Rick took a look. Zephyra's left hand, the one not holding the stylus, was flat against the cover of her folio. It was barely shaking.
