Well, this time I did mean who died, but glad to know the kids are still trotting around in their tin cans to save the day.

[He's only had the privilege of seeing such things from afar and in VR. Fighting side by side on a battlefront sounds a touch too up close and personal to him.

Regardless, he does want the statistics. Anybody who's gonna come at it like him or John aren't going to pony up about suffering the Reaper, and he's certain that applies to more than half the folks he knows.

And he only just knows John, but he's good people. He has that same electric quality Bill did: a flavor of charisma that had you at ease and paying rapt attention at the same time. Could be the Army man in him, honing that natural born leadership to a lancing point. And it is precisely because he's got this quality that Richie is willing to bet that his refusal to speak seriously about his death is going to be twice as high as the average guy's.

He can respect that he wants to mull it over. But if he starts going to ruin over it like Richie had, well...that's a different story.]

So. How many was it? Do you know who?