Well, if I say it I wouldn't be confused, so if you want me to call you Vash, that still works. [ Yes, yes, downstairs they are heading. ] And I wouldn't have called you Blondie anyway. I'm... not great with the whole nicknames thing.

[ Vash breathes out softly. ]

I wish I knew where all the Dependents are. I think they are what called us here, and they must have had a reason.

[ He is not quite expecting Wolfwood to be awake, but he is looking inside the common area all the same. ]