"Even then," Louis tells him, very serious. Mars the effect when he smiles across the strip of space between them.

Imagine all the threads Daniel can chase now. Louis has only been treated to occasional spectating, playing audience while Daniel chews over information through phone calls. Oddities beyond the evils and eccentricities of the mortal world, all of that is now open to Daniel.

Louis can't take credit for the opened door. Daniel opened it without him, Louis' story become a key. Louis had no choice but to go through, occupy the space that had been made and spin the fall out to suit him.

His thumb runs a steady circuit along Daniel's knuckles. Wishes uselessly to see his eyes bloom blue again, but knows it can never be. That's not how this has gone.

"I wanna hear what counts as weird, now that you're out here with us."