[Vander regarded her for a quiet few moments, assessing her expression and body language as she spoke about Silco. Her loyalty and her buy-in to the other man was obvious, and he felt a momentary flare of frustration that, as usual, Silco was so far up his own ass to see it. Typical though.

So, instead, he shrugged his big shoulders.] He checked out when it wasn't his choice and outside of his control, if what I've been told is true. And he can't blame Jinx for it, so it becomes everyone else's problem. It makes him intractable and entrenched.

[He watched her open the package and said nothing about the item that he saw her produce. It would come in handy in certain situations, and it was better than another biting pet.

He took no offense to her wanting Silco back. Nor the idea Jinx did. He had made - somewhat - peace of his own demise and that his legacy did not require a wish for his return. It didn't matter, and he wasn't here for a popularity contest.]

Jinx can grow into her own person when out from under him. I have no doubt she misses him deeply, but the point of parents is to let their children grow up and move on to live out their own lives. Silco doesn't seem capable of allowing that with her.