[I'll come get you.

It's stupid. It's ridiculous, false hope in the situation they find themselves in. But when Stone tells him that? Something suddenly lights up, something Ezekiel hadn't realized he had almost lost along the way, like his own light rekindled.

Not bright and blaring and searing but warm and golden, like the Library.]

... Okay.

[And for the first time in so long he means it. For the first time the world does feel a little more okay.

Maybe they've been going on about this the wrong way. Maybe they don't have to do this alone. Player Two has entered the game and just knowing that suddenly gives Ezekiel strength in return.]

Thanks, mate. I'll owe you one. ... By the way? Totally hit him with a ray gun. [His eyes are shining but this time it's not tears but rekindled mischief. Suddenly he sits a bit taller, too.] It disrupted his powers and he was fizzling in and out of existence. You should have seen the stupid expression on his face!

[He needs this. He didn't realize how much he needs this. This defiance against Peter, against the light. This connection with Stone.

This sharing.

Stone is coming to get him.]