"I know better than to lift perishables if I'm going to take a nap. Too late for that now, knowing you."

Volgin's lazy expression begged for the looming Raikov to try something, if he might. He carried not a single note of being threatened.

A Colonel, without the world's superpowers breathing down the back of his neck.

"This won't be the last time I'm here," he distantly added.