"When am I not? Under her watch I've been bitten by dinosaurs, shot at, brainwashed, scapegoated, half-drowned, mindfucked which isn't even the same thing as brainwashed, electrocuted, attacked by wolves..." He counts off on his fingers, although Zouichi's heard this a thousand times before. Howard never passes up an opportunity to bitch about all the weird missions Stacy's sent them on.

"Should I run for Council? Now that I'm all respectable and everything." Not that anyone would actually vote for him and he knows it, but the idea's entertaining. He leans over the desk, feigning a girly pose. It's taken a few years, but he isn't so rankled by Zouichi teasing him like this anymore that he can't tease back. "It's too bad that meido outfit got so messy, Zoubaby. It really was the best you've ever looked."