"I'm giving her a couple of days in her room," he says quietly, "since there's no underwater cells in Zero. And I did, actually, insist that she fix everything she broke up on the deck. She's already started. I won't show her my immense disappointment? Because I knew this was coming. Any time now. And because her relationship with me. and your relationship with me. are not the same."

He breathes out.

"What would you have wanted me to do, Daniel?"