"It was easier than some of the stuff you've taught me," he teases. "It comes up in my studies now and again. I'll need more of it the further along I get in the program, and by grad school, it should come up pretty regularly."

He would love to be the brains to Tex's brawn, even if he doesn't plan to be a mercenary. Not that he thinks his sister is at all unintelligent. Just focused on her fighting. Maybe she, like Omega, never had the opportunity.

He'll make them all proud.