Colin stared straight ahead. “Do what?”
“How do you keep planning, and scheming and making terrible choices? Constantly. You’ve been doing this for how long? Decades?”
Colin stopped for a moment and took a breath that almost trembled. Tiredness entered his eyes, and for a moment, he looked every bit as old as his years. Even that craggy rock, she realized, could wear down.
In the end, he gave her a sad smile. “I could really use a vacation. A very long vacation.” He laughed softly. “Even retirement for a while.”
Dash reached up and touched his shoulder. “When the final climax of this terrible episode in the history of the BrainTrust ends, perhaps things will quiet down. Perhaps then you can indeed take such a vacation.”
Colin’s voice turned rueful. “But where on earth could I go that
