Flick noticed Pell's reaction about Cal. How could he not. It was Cal. He got under everyone's skin, yanked and pulled until there was nothing left of you. He didn't want that to happen to Pell. But....Flick was biased. Very, very biased.

He let himself lean against his friend, Pell was warm and familiar, unlike everything else about this place. Flick knew he was curious, and he didn't want to intentionally hide things from him but, well, there were things Flick didn't want to deal with. Wraxialin mostly. And things he didn't want Pell to know, to get hurt. How dangerous Cal was.

And then Pellaz broke the kiss, and said the name no one wanted to utter. Bad things happened when hara said that name. "Yeah. Thiede." He looked around, as if expecting the red haired apparition to appear behind them. "Are we safe?"