"I'll be honest, when the Admiral asked me I didn't know temps were a thing and I kinda fucked up."

Hmhmnn.

There's a distance here that Marc actively hates. Whatever was comfortable has fled the room.

"You do still know me, y'know. What I like, what I do, what my job is - that was all true. It used to be mostly me, back then. Now it's mostly him, and I guess I owe him that much, 'cause I had my own stuff going on for ages and he had nothin'."