“Do the two of you have to fight quite so much?” Celes said. “We’ve been over the kidnapping misunderstanding, and anyway, Locke, there’s no need for you to get offended on my account –”

“He’ll pay me back later,” Setzer interrupted, and as much as Locke thought, like hell I will, he couldn’t help staring at the mouth that spoke those words, and he felt heat rising in his face.