He smiled crookedly. He was the only man for the job. "We don't get those kinda choices. The jobs the job, no matter where are."

He let a beat of silence pass before continuing. "You okay now? Settled from.. before?" Raylan felt like the right time to offer a hug had passed and he was starting to slip into a self-awkwardness that he didn't quite know what to do with, not with the idea of inviting Malcolm to curl against him floating around in the back of his head.

He missed the solid heat of a body next to him.