Kyle's cheeks burn red. Well that... explained a lot of the reactions the rookies had to him during training sessions and near the Council chambers.

He's usually extremely oblivious to anyone having a crush on him, and he tosses a fruit playfully at his friend. 'Dude! I'm so not turbed by the implications of that statement.' (He'd been trying out some of Dick's prefix/suffix knockoffs, but still wasn't very good at it yet.)

That was easier than admitting the real reason he was called Torchbearer, wasn't it?