"I was only thinking of the light," Potemkin says sheepishly. "It's a skill I developed over my time in the army. The trick is to focus on only one thing, until you lose of track of the time," Potemkin says. Potemkin would never speak poorly of his job in Zepp, he could proclaim his elation and pride at any prompting, but by nature there were inevitably periods where it could get...boring.

Like the proverbial watched pot, the signal changes just when Potemkin isn't looking at it. He's alerted despite that because the crowd around and behind him moved on before he does. It's like a shove on the back, even if it's too chaotic to pinpoint out a shover, and Potemkin ends up shocked again in quick succession.

"Hmmpf! Excuse me!"