[ Steve makes no secret of the way he flatly eyes Eddie, going back to his scrolling. ]

Did you guys know that the people here call this place a nexus?

[ BREAKFAST TALK, mmm! Yum, waffles. ]

It's in some of the broadcasts. [ Conceding his moodiness for the moment, he looks at Eddie. ] A nexus is some kind of middle-ground, right? Like a black hole in physics, everything falls into it.

[ He failed getting into tech college, sure, but he wasn't sleeping through every science class. ]

So we're in some kind of giant, cosmic bucket.

[ ... There it is. ]