"His comrade," Heat corrected. "Or I guess maybe... he's the comrade of my comrades. We didn't actually work together much before." No, he'd been too busy trying to destroy everything that had ever meant anything to him. His mind was a still a bit too fuzzy at the moment for him to try and work out a proper connection. He and Roland had some time to bond after death. That was what was important.

He shook his head. "Roland was more sociable than me. Most of them were. I'm not surprised he made friends with you." That certainly put him in an unfortunate position when the tuner had lost it then, didn't it? He'd probably been coming by to see him or something. Wasn't that how it always went? "Not surprised he didn't tell you, either. Why would he want to?"

Hadn't Peter seen?

"Issat all you needed?" He hoped so. It was far too easy to talk in his current state, especially since he didn't really have any reason not to.