Tony went, "Hmf," to the observation, that had been hard to miss, though harder yet to understand. And if he did, if Tony could figure out the precise axis of lost friends, the frenzy that they had all been in that lead to both guilt for their actions and a challenge to what trust they had in each other, the specific threat that Jon had levelled against Cayde, and the myriad of clumsier slips and inattentiveness that Tony was prone to, if Tony knew the angle of all of these mechanisms, if they were even what was wrong, it was not in his array of talents to fix that kind of problem. He had to draw himself up out of this fugue, belatedly refocusing on Echo to actually process what he had said then, and breathed a sardonic laugh to accuse, "And you let him? Is that how you handle problems when you're out there doing your route, just catalogue and report?"
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