"A vote," Ratchet says angrily. "But yeah, a vote to see if he'd stay captain not if he'd get thrown off the ship, and of course I voted against him, he made you leave over something that wasn't even your fault! "

That last bit had risen to a shout without Ratchet even noticing and he catches himself and closes his teeth on anything else he would have said, settling back in his chair.

"I gave him a nice big piece of my mind before I left, too, about how unfair and irresponsible it was, and the fact that you volunteered doesn't change that in the slightest."