Honesty yawns. He had been up for 12 hours, and although he was only half honey badger, he followed the sleep patterns of the animal (two 8 hour awake periods per every other day, with a 24 hour rest period in between). He was very tired, and was about to fall asleep on Andrea.
If you don't know it's impossible it's easier to do. And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet. — Neil Gaiman
later?