"Cooping him up here like this hardly counts as real world experience. All his life people have kept him pinned in. Is it really all that surprising that when he got out in the world he did it with far too many grand gestures?"

With that he sighs and puts his empty glass down. "I do not apologize for what I hold him responsible for. Were it not for his actions, much would be different now. There is a chance my mother would be alive. And the project that brought me joy would not have been weaponized. You can tell him that. But..."

Again Reeve pauses, shaking his head. How to put it?

"But let him know I'm trying. Which is why I am pleased to have an old friend coming to Edge. To help me. To make sure I take care of myself. So he doesn't need to be concerned with me."