Billy leaned back into the touch. It was rare, to let these doubts out, but when they came they were with Goodnight. He trusted him so utterly, after so long, that there was really no one else he could be this honest with. Even, sometimes, himself.

Once the coffee was made, they studied. Billy was quite civic-minded, but that was mostly because, realistically, you had to be when you worked in the gray areas of the law. He knew most of the geography. History was a mess, and he wasn't hardly any good at most of the science subjects.