South snorts again, still amused, and shakes her head. "He was around my neck when we were talking, so he'll have heard, but, y'know. It was all North's side of shit. Which was mostly me dragging him for being an oblivious idiot."

She says that with a degree of noticeable fondness she can't hide. That conversation was a rollercoaster and a half, in the end, but it had started largely as that: North telling her what had happened, her stunned and teasing.