"Oh boy... I dunno how these asterisk things work, exactly, but I hope he's not gonna try and pull that trick off without knowin' what it does beforehand."

But perhaps it was time to leave that topic behind. Where he didn't have to think about it.

"Paladin, huh... I went there myself. Wasn't... really anything like what I was expecting, though. Or what Hunk described himself as being, for that matter."

Red looked down into his own gloved hand. "...Took it anyway, though. Kinda felt like I had to."