He finishes chewing, swallows. "Yeah, but like ... he didn't know about any of that. So he was maybe a little freaked out? And I mean, I was too, for a whole bunch of different reasons, and ... Ava said I should give them the space until they got things settled, so I went back to my room."

There's condensation on the outside of his glass, forming tiny beads of moisture. He traces a finger through it.

"And she came by later, and told me what was going on. That it was a demon. And I thought -- what if it was one of His, what if it came here to find me."