[He nods, easily accepting her answer. It'd been pretty much what he expected, after all.]

Sooner.

[He says it with a faint, bitter little smile, then sighs.]

There's so much shit that goes into making a team like this work, and it's- we're not even volunteers, none of us even wanted to be here. I don't know, maybe there's a way to make decisions on the fly when every single person here gets an equal say, but I don't know what it is.

Maybe you should be talking to an optimist about this instead, huh? I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be all that helpful.

[He raises his eyebrows at her, an arm still wrapped around his stomach, looking a little amused at himself, rueful.]