"It does. It also makes a new one once you pick this handle part back up again," Vax reassured him. "And it turns out it feels really satisfying to 'break the connection' ahead of somebody else. Go on, give it a try. Imagine I just won't stop talking, and you've really had enough of it, and you need to go and be done with this conversation already, but I just won't shut up..." Not unlike wearing his pearl earring at times.

He channeled his inner Scanlan, and he didn't pause.