"Look, there's bibiru-sitting," Gene says, and snickers. "That's right out for you. Nobody in their right mind would let any creature depend on you for long. You can barely even depend upon yourself. Lucky you have me around."

If left to his own devices, Tony would eat dry cereal for a week straight...if he remembered to eat.

This sucks. Still, he's trying to be a little positive about it? Which is weird, for him. He doesn't particularly like that the dynamic's reversed.

"Maybe you can find something at the Opara Core."