[Another nod, and he takes a sip of his own beer.]

There's...three of us, actually. That are modified, I mean. One of 'em got her number after the modifying, the other two got them during a time they'd forgotten about the network.

[Pause.]

...That's a thing that happens sometimes, where people just all of a sudden forget everything about the network and their pulses and go back to the way they were before they got their number. It's happened to me before. I started leaving myself notes around the house about not going in to work if I can't remember a certain password, after that.

[It's 'old man' in Ancient Egyptian, because teenagers are terrible....]