The punch doesn’t hurt, exactly, but it’s hard enough to get the point across. He grins, moving back to spot, but before she lifts the bar she says she’ll cover. And that shouldn’t be a surprise — of course she doesn’t want to get her brother in trouble — but it kind of is. Because she could get in deep shit for lying like that and if nothing else South’s proven that she’d cover her own ass above all else.

“...thank you. I don’t know how much good it’ll do but we do have the defense that we’ve always been like this. Mostly.”