Nine months? I'm assumin' you don't mean that hellhole we just crawled out of.

[ but he sets that aside, briefly, to urge her. he isn't sure why, or where this investment has come from. perhaps a collection of passing comments that have eventually lead to a stack; or Herc's desire to do best where he can (when in so many regards, he has failed)]

Tell y'what. I was about to take Max out. I'll swing by.