[Cross's reply definitely saves him some effort-- he had been figuring on hunting the kid down one of these days to check in on him. It had been a while since things were calm enough for them to talk.]

We can get ya some learning, no prob. But, you're going to need to follow my rules if we're gonna be working together on this. You think you can do that?

[Cliff remembered remembered the kid's spirit, but he also remembered the kid's complete panic and emotional shut-down on TERRACE. There was going to be a lot of things that Cross needed to learn just to get past that.]