"Got it." Blaze perks up, glad to hear him relax. She hadn't thought of embarrassing him, and doesn't like the way things felt awkward for a moment there.

"Well, what we'd really want are the computer parts - any hard drives, data storage. Books if you can spare them. We could trade, if you're interested in any of ours." The cryptarchs would love that stuff. So would some of her fellow Guardians. The old ways tend to get a healthy respect among them.