Ianto tightened his grip on Sulu's hand, squeezing it slightly in reassurance. "Yeah, I get it. Nothing can be surprisingly good news, sometimes, though. I understand how it could be a bit boring, though, just doing the same thing every day." He hoped that it was boring regardless of what time he were to be scheduled, and not just because he'd switched from being with the people he'd normally worked with, not because of anything that he might have done for Ianto's own sake.

At the mention of the book, though Ianto fought himself hard to remember something, anything about it. "Well, yeah," he said, not quite so smoothly. "I was trying to, at least. I mean. I'm not as far as I could be, but. It's...it's a pretty challenging read, in some parts. Definitely one that you have to be paying a lot of attention to," he lied. Okay, so it might be challenging for some. But Ianto should have had no problem with it. The fact that he was, well. Wasn't a very good sign. He could barely remember any sorts of details about it whatsoever, come to think of it, and really hoped that Sulu wasn't about to quiz him on it, or anything like that.