Lookout, sitting on the cot with her back to the wall, legs and arms wrapped around the pillow, just gave him a shrug.

“I don’t think I want to make that dynamic worse. So I still won’t share the details.”

“Heartbreaker slit his own throat after Imp tormented him for long enough. Everyone freaked out.”

“I… let’s skip that part.”

“Sure. I’m good at skipping parts.”

“I met them then. Heartbreaker dying upset the women, but the kids were calm, up until we surrounded them, trying to corral the situation.”

The door rattled. He twisted around, looking through the window.

“Visitors,” he told her.

He saw her tense. Her eye contact broke, and he could see her eyes start to dart around.

The eye movements Tattletale had mentioned.

“Are we okay?”

“I don’t know,” Lookout told him.

He reached up and opened the door, before dismissing some of the darkness.

Aiden and Darlene.

“Oh,” Lookout said, shrinking down to hide a bit behind the pillow she held.

Darlene told her, “Your other team’s coming. They’re getting all the teams together. We wanted to talk before you left, if you’re leaving.”

“I… okay.”

“Remember the freaky dream one of us had?” Aiden asked.

“Don’t,” Darlene nudged him, indicating Brian.

“I remember,” Lookout said. “Nightmare.”

“After, we thought we had to meet, in case it became too hard to do it after,” Aiden said.

“This is the same idea,” Darlene said.

“What I did was worse than have a bad dream and freak everyone out,” Lookout said.

“A lot worse,” Darlene told her. Aiden took hold of her arm to tug her back a bit.

“A lot worse,” Lookout said, quiet.

“You scared Candy a lot. You scared all the Heartbroken. We invited you in and you threatened us,” Darlene accused her.

“I’m sorry.”

“Are you?” Aiden asked. “Are you actually sorry? You said you can’t help it. Is that still true?”

“I don’t know,” Lookout answered.

“If we told you you’re off the team, would you freak out?” Aiden asked.

Lookout cringed, hearing that.

“Yes? No?” Darlene asked.

“I don’t know. Probably. I try but… I feel like with Tristan, with everything else that’s happening, I might need to freak out. I need to get to my workshop, I need to work. The world’s ending. There’s barely any time.”

Aiden leaned back at that, his posture weakening a bit.

“What if you had to choose?” Darlene asked.

“I don’t know. I really don’t.”

“Oh,” Aiden said. “I… thought this might be easier.”

“I don’t want to lie,” Lookout told the pair.

“Um,” Aiden said, he looked down at Brian, and then latched on there, like he was looking for something that was easier to fixate on. He held up a hand with a small bird in it. “My bird tried to fly through the dark and bumped into a wall.”