"It was a joke, you daft bastard." It had been. Charlie goes so far as to roll his eyes and throw a punch to Nate's shoulder, all good-natured horseplay. Anyway, Nate won't have been the first person he's known telling him off for being a wet blanket.

"Now come on, you can't tell me there's a library and you haven't got a whole list of reference material yet. What have you been doing all day, having a go at it over a few old nat geos?"