[it's while Tonic is busy thinking and weighing that Tek gives him anything more than a sideways glance. he watches his expression, catches glimpses of his thoughts through his body language, does some guessing and calculating of his own.

but when it's his turn to speak again, he's right back to shrugging the whole thing off.]

Oh, I give you much more credit than that. I figured if you did have anything to do with it, it was probably in an incidental way.