Duke heard him climb aboard and turned with a faint groan. "Look, Nathan --" He stopped with a frown when he saw him. Nathan's eyes were swollen and red, and there was a kind of manic look in them that Duke had never seen before.

Well. Not on Nathan, anyway. It reminded Duke painfully of the look on Octavia's face, just before she plastered her blood all over Duke's cheeks.

". . . You might want to consider switching to decaf, buddy."