"That's the one. Why, are you doubting he's as trigger-happy as he looks? Because - don't."

This really shouldn't be so easy for him to joke about, he knows. Sematimba was his oldest friend, and the only person he'd trusted for a long damn time. Until he'd met Muss, at least. Maybe longer. But then Semi had gone and there was a part of him that felt abandoned, maybe. Lonely, definitely. Why it's so natural to tell Kovacs all of this is the part he really hasn't sussed out yet.

"I did go after him, and he almost broke me into pieces. Naomi stopped him." He says this with the same detached interest. "Aqua under the bridge." The truth is Amos is the closest thing he has to family here.