[Blake grunts to himself.] As long as I'm here, I couldn't even if I wanted to.

[His eyes fall. His fingers tap slowly on the padded floor.]

Wouldn't want to, either.

[Funny how the kid's not chewing him out, or trying to make him spill the details. Saying you have a dark secret you don't wanna talk about is the best way in the damn world to make somebody curious, and you'd figure this would be the last guy in the world to leave well enough alone.]

Hey. Yusuke.

[He makes a decent attempt at getting the name right.]

You're not as much of a pain in the ass as you look.