"Damn right you're not," Badou shot back, already moving. They could walk and talk, there was no point in standing around either way. "You're comin' back for me. I'm not tryin' to be a hero here - I need someone I can trust on the outside, if I can't make it myself."

Both of his eyes were open for the first time in a long while, the left vivid green even in the dark, the right a dead milky white, rimmed with blood. "I'll go as far as I can, but if I stop - you don't."