"I can at least keep you two from doing something foolish, that's for sure," Tim says with the sort of firm conviction that can only come from knowing that he's just as prone to foolishness as Martin or Jon can be, just in very different way.

Really, they needed Sasha, but none of them had had her for ages. And if Tim is feeling honest, she was just as foolish as the rest of them or she would have quit before she got roped into the Archive in the first place. Maybe she could have done it, unlike him.

"So. Besides cults and...all that. Anything else I ought to be prepared for?"