He winds the ribbon into a small coil and tucks it into his pocket before he tucks Eileen's loose hair behind one year. "More than alright," he said. Julien - and naturally Julien was lurking around somewhere - was undoubtedly pleased at this performance. He'd been Eileen's first instructor in this. Elisha had been the one who preferred t teach her to paint watercolor jellyfish.

"You did extremely well," he says, before smiling crookedly. "The aftermath, though. That's tough, isn't it?" An understatement, for him. The violent challenges he'd done - only two of them - had kept him up late at night until he could tuck the reactions away again.