Thomas winced. For the longest time, he'd had a bar code on the back of his neck but he didn't know how it had gotten there. He couldn't remember getting it, only that it was there and then it was gone.

"Did something make you want to get them all at once?" Thomas asked, reaching for his wrist and sliding a finger along the words. "You had to be an overachiever and do them all at once and not in trips?"