[ fiercely: ] They're going to be afraid something's going to happen to you like it happened to Malik.

[ not afraid of you. he's not letting percy spiral down that road.

for now he just stares at him, awkward, intense, angry, and trying to deal with four hundred different emotions at once. think, think, vax'ildan. think. ]

...'s the thing, I think. You didn't escape - we caught you. You just didn't die.

I think... [ frowns. ] I hope, that maybe whatever the fuck happened to him was a kind of balance. Kazunari was fucked up up until we found out on Friday, right? Maybe you just... maybe just have to make it. To then.