“Please. Nicer?” Trace laughed. “I’m only here for the money. I said that the moment I agreed to work with you. I never said a sunblasted thing about being nice to you. Bitterroot’s given me reason to be nice to her, what with her actual conversation and general lack of being always grim and serious all the time. You most certainly have not given me reason to be nice to you, and so I fail to see why I should.”