"Oh, don't you start," Guy waved off. "It's fine. He was pretty, isn't that all that matters? And I was thirsty." And that was the greater truth. He hadn't known how thirsty he had been until that first sip. "Well, I'm here now," he remarked to Nikola, and grinned. Tempted by someone, well, smarter and maturer than the boy, certainly.