"Alright." Daniel looks at him. Sighs. "Alright, but still. It's fucked, and I wish it didn't happen."

So, you know. Fuck this fucking thing. He takes a moment and re-orients, best he can while his head still hurts. He's not sure if the blood is helping, but it's not making it worse, so that's fine. Better to keep ... protein, or whatever, up.

"This is new. Every he sent before was just... passive. And there was nothing in their heads but weird bullshit from him. Completely harmless to me. The last time we communicated was also completely fine, outside the baseline weirdness of it happening at all."

He's irritated that Armand targeted Louis. 'Why' is a stupid question, 'Why now' is the important one.

"Did something happen? Did you hear from him before this?"