"..." Nicky hadn't really been paying attention because he'd been a little pre-occupied with Susan and her beauty. He'd been trying to figure out a way to compliment her when Vincent laughed and started talking.

But he did catch that last part.

"Maybe you should let Audhild be and go rest for a little while, Amorason," Nicky suggested. "I'm not sure it would do for her to see her brother in this sort of state."

He turned his attention back to the others, then. "I saw the space hamster not a minute ago. He went scampering past me that way," he indicated the way from which he'd just come.