P: Built in the Past
Brendan was nearly bursting with impatience, but so exhausted that he knew he needed to stop and sleep again.
"I need a break," he admitted reluctantly.
Brennant eyed him as he stepped back, and commented almost encouragingly, "You've been trying to learn within two days what Adrian has been trying to learn within two weeks, and what took me at least twenty years to work out."
"At the speed they are moving, two days is long enough for them to travel farther than the fastest ship I could build can travel in a week," he pointed out.
"You're the one who hasn't had time," Brennant replied callously.
There was nothing Brendan could say to that. It could even be argued that his brief stint as the acting King of Eks Corp had ruined the company. He had sold off holdings that his predecessors had guarded for centuries, and yielded the proceeds to some of their oldest rivals.