"Oh gee, we'd have to personally track them down? Or give them a call via tablet?" She walked after him, amused and liable to poke at his sides once she was close enough. "What're you planning on doing, oh so wise one? The complaints are usually what comes before the whole 'and now we do this,' part. You aren't ever really surprised it takes effort to rally people together."

She knew he wasn't, for all she'd kid around about his (very real) laziness and the like. Paris had been nothing but needing to make his own connections. Her world focus had been narrow, but she'd caught on to that in spite of herself.

"If two technologies are canceling each other out, or canceling time out like this, then something has to give."