Now, Ordinarily Wesley would have quite a few follow-up questions to a story like that, Alex, make no mistake. But today he was, you know, kind of codeine'd out, not to mention fresh from having heard a pretty intense story from Kennedy, so there was just a bit of disoriented blinking and some mental fuzziness where he normally kept his nerdiness.

"...right," he said, dazedly, and shook his head to try to get some thoughts working there again. "And this was... when was this?"