Qubit's reaction is more than enough to get Patch to re-examine the box she's holding with panicked urgency. What she sees, however, is nothing. No change in the slightest, nothing at all to provoke the reaction that Qubit is having. Which just makes Patch give him the calmest thousand yard stare.

This is right up there with those kids who tried to convince her and her partner, her first year on the force, that their drunk driving was actually because of hornets in their car. She can still see them so clearly, their bumper wrapped around that telephone pole, their ruined radiator belching steam into the sky, running around screaming and batting at their heads and warning the officers to keep away, save themselves, don't be heroes!

"Is that really the best you've got?"