"I look up!" Wow Bruce that's rude he always has to look up because everyone has too much leg compared to him and apparently you can't just go taking them out from under them? "Mal managed to get zapped by a sky vagina in the hand because he's an idiot, but we weren't surprised."

If one of their merc friends was going to suffer such an indignity, it'd be Mal. Because Mal was Mal. And dumb. All the plans went wrong enough that just saying 'Mal's coming on a job' or something like that would have Yngvi doing his best impression of a bear with a sore foot.

Wait, what was he talking about?

"Asher signed a contract, just because he's dead, doesn't change things." But Yngvi's smile is wrong, and he'd rather examine his thumbnail instead of looking at Bruce. Asher being dead changes pretty much everything, it was weird but Yngvi had a hundred reasons that everyone else listened to, only that's no one else's business, is it? "Melisende said we're honouring it, so someone had to come back here. Me, being the honourable sort, volunteered. Everyone should be falling over themselves to have me here - you know that. I," he pronounces very grandly, without shame or modesty, "am an incredibly gifted dwarf."