"Eh, I couldn't hold it against Rude, anyhow. I got the rank, yo. Bein' Tseng's second-in-command kinda means it's on my head, anyhow." Reno shrugged, even if that gesture wasn't audible over the phone. "Whatever the case might be, I guess I'd do the job. Done it before when we thought the Director was dead, after all."

Twice, now. Tseng did that 'probably dead' thing entirely too often.

"There's somethin' else to add to the list, man. 'Runnin' a Trio of Misplaced Almost-Mercs. For Dummies.'"

They totally had that book out there somewhere, right?