"For now," he offers, never too faded to lose that cryptic tone. Some things you just grow up with, build humor and personality on. If he'd only wear his glasses around another human being, they might notice and remark, how terribly like his mother he could be.

Though he struggles to imagine Etsuko, drunk and high at a party, gently hip-checking his step-father or father before him.

"Depends," he elaborates eventually, looping an arm with Ty's to keep from bouncing off-balance from his side. "Where were you planning to spend your last night in the city?"