James grimaced sympathetically. "Yuck. Yeah, I know... not personally, I guess I've been really lucky, but I know how that goes." He very carefully didn't glance over at Mort; no identifying information, if he didn't have explicit permission to give it. Not even hints. That was his first rule of talking about other aces' experiences to anyone.

"I've even heard about an ace who got... assaulted by their prom date," he said. "Took the invitation as a come-on, I guess. I'll grant you, a lot of the time that's what it is, but sheesh!" He rolled his eyes dramatically. "Ask, people, why don't you!" He finished up with a wry commiserating grin in Aaron's direction.