It was an eminently sensible question. Moss didn't want good sense, though. He wanted to be told what he… — Harry Turtledove

It was an eminently sensible question. Moss didn't want good sense, though. He wanted to be told what he wanted to hear. That he was thinking like a three-year-old was a telling measure of how tired he was, but he was too tired to realize it.

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