Hey, hadn't he always tried to help, in his own way? (And how had she missed his? Between the beach party, and crashing prom, and generally Zetta and Lash being loud and obnoxious quite publicly... and the whole Lash-charging-into-space thing!)

"I wasn't sleeping!" That was literal truth; he'd been inanimate. "And who the hell is gonna chuck me into space?!"