Blue's stare lingered for a few moments after the answer, slowly turning toward the way ahead. No different at all? With or without centuries of external breeding? Did that even factor in? He couldn't help but feel it would, despite what he'd heard often contrary.

It was left to silence, ultimately, as Blue gave no reply aloud. It was footsteps and the hum and growling of vehicles slowing and speeding up at corners, streetlights glowing all the brighter for the heights compact buildings reached in covering the sky. Many, many minds wrapped up in sleep – sometimes more vibrant in that state than waking, in ways.

And that gentle tug of something close but not altogether known. That, too. Blue frowned.