"I'm not mad at you for anything," he says, wouldn't know how to be mad at Jason for that, even if he understood why Lux was. Thinks he understands, anyway, because he still remembers her in the cave. Still thinks she's probably as complicated as everyone he's met in a cape and cowl, and no telling how that will play out with Jason.

Jason might be the least complicated of them, he thinks. Which makes walling him out a little crueler, especially when they're in a lull, when he probably just wants to enjoy not dying this week. Maybe if they let him, he'll tell his little brother how that works. "It was a little surreal, is all. I kept expecting Brucie to sweep through and nauseate us all with a story about this one time he was playing squash."