"Yes, and the reason was to call me annoying and get jumpridden for it." But there's such deep appreciation in the way he says it that only a true curmudgeon could get mad. With both of them mopped up to a degree—they'll need to shower, for sure—he's curled beside Ren, watching him.

"I was about to say, about Crow. That he got adopted out of his bad childhood, and it's fucked him up." Short and sweet, but, he thinks, accurate.