Heron Lake Plateau have you ever felt the warm embrace

tegan nodded at the mention about the firebirds and how unless he was 'leaving something out'. which, yes, he was, but he would not share that. 

to the next comment, the boy merely snorted, giving a heavy shake of his head. "oh, no," said tegan firmly, "i'm not apologizing." in fact, just as tegan sounded like he was giving up, he was! good intuition, quixote. "i've been right all this time in thinking leadership was too much responsibility. dunno what i thought it'd help me prove. i'm happy back at gamma or delta or fuckin iota, i don't care. just toss me back down the ranks and i'll keep doing what i've been doin' without all the pressure," he said with a flick of his ears. he left out the salty bit about quixote being right to doubt him, but the end of the sentence lingered in his headd. 

"fun trial run. i'll take the free version, though," tegan said, in a reference that broke the 4th wall.