[Uke]

"I must have hit my head pretty damn hard if you-" Nate ignored the way all three of them winced. "-aren't caught up in your own fame."

He eyed the three of them for a moment before he snorted.

"Look... you lot know 'Near' pretty well, right?" He said, slowly. Why was he still indulging this idiocy, anyway? At their nods, he continued, "Does he have anything pierced? Anything at all?"

"No," Nancy informed, frowning. "Of course not. Near is only a child and a boy at that... why would he have his ears per-oh gosh!"

She gasped as Nate pulled up the baggy white t-shirt and revealed a dark blue gemstone hanging from his navel.