Judging from his team's reaction to that, Reo suspects he has a new nickname. Ah, well. He's certainly had worse.

"All right," he says readily, because he's curious, and because what athlete doesn't like talking about his game? Then he hesitates, though, because he's gotten to the part of the post-game ritual where the glow of playing is subsiding and he really, really wants -

"But perhaps it would be a more pleasant conversation for both of us if I showered first?" he suggests, forgetting as he often does that Americans frequently take suggestions as something easily dismissed.