Between the two of them they can assess an entire room and group of people in under thirty seconds. It's actually how they first started talking beyond what was necessary - a weird form of people watching where they discussed how to disarm others, lethal or nonlethal (in Sam's case).

Also makes for some very uncomfortable conversations around other people. Wash can't seem to let go of his worst case scenarios, paranoia never letting its claws out of him, even now.

"I'd like to think that's because of caution." Mostly, it's luck; he's just refusing to acknowledge that. Wash gives a small noise and finally rolls over, facing Locus in the dark with dark brown eyes looking at him.