"He's heavier than he looks, too, he's a Nietzschean."

Dylan sort of knows that from experience. Not from Telemachus Rhade, but from Gaheris.

Because sometimes a captain winds up having to help his wounded first officer to medical treatment.

(He has to force himself not to see Gaheris' still, dead face when he looks down at the unconscious Telemachus. He'd bent over Gaheris' body, crouched by him as he'd died.)

Not that Gaheris, proud Nietzschean that he was, would ever have been in a situation like this.

"Lucky for him, I'm stronger than I look, too." And that means a lot more coming from Dylan, tall, broad-shouldered, and muscular, than it does from Julian.

Thanks, mom, for the heavy grav strength.

"I can take most of the weight, you just tell me where to go."