Curt fell behind Ryan as they walked over the perfect, picture-perfect grass lawn of the Gardens. And, like so many seemingly simple things in his life, there was no right choice. If he walked ahead of Ryan, there was the chance that Ryan would see this as arrogant. A human putting themselves ahead of someone – something – that was so clearly better than a homo sapien. It was also a Solstice putting himself in front of an Agent, which was just bad optics. If he walked beside Ryan, it would seem ...