"Yeah," Sparkle replied, grinning because cotton candy soup. "What do we want to take care of first? A lot of what you listed off seemed, I dunno, pretty straightforward. So maybe that, just to get it out of the way? I mean, unless there's something that needs to go first..."

He was trying to puzzle this thing out. Well aware, yes, that Hannibal was still the one who actually knew what he was doing, here.