Luckily (or unluckily, depending on which part of South you're asking), she's right about Brand's current inability to consider why she's got a spare bed free. He might later, when he's trying to think about anything else he can to distract himself, but not now. Now he only sighs and offers no further objections.

At least last time, he could fantasize about shanking the Tower while they'd been alone in the car. He wouldn't have, of course, because the Tower was protecting Rune and Rune had told Brand to stay behind, but he at least had an unpleasant face to pin the blame on. Maybe he should take a look at Jorgmund's org chart, find one here that he can blame.

Fuck, he just wants to go home.

I'm not going to be good company," he says, as though he ever is. "You wanna go back to what you were doing, go ahead. But..." Fuck, this is pathetic. "...I wouldn't mind company either."