"Uh-huh. You got a mean right hook, kid, but you really gotta be careful who you're swinging it at." He tries again with the water, offering it to Billy, holding it up for him. He thinks it might help, might calm him down, might ground him to take a drink of water.

But it seems that pulling on the thread of what little he knows about Billy is working, too. "And I don't go down easy. Easier, like this, but try not to test it." He keeps his breaths even, slow.

"Do you want to tell me about your friends?" he asks. He can't tell why their relationship is so strained - it seems to him that Billy's trying to push them away. That reminds him of half his team actually, but he knows if he were in the same position, he'd have loads to say about them.