[ dani frowns. ]

You don't know that. Especially if you'd been hiding it, not using it. You don't know what it might have done or how...many you could have controlled at once.

You might have fought and they would have killed you too. Lexi, their deaths were not your fault.

[ thirty years, it's been. he doesn't talk about them. he doesn't talk about that power, either, he probably wouldn't have even told dani if he hadn't used it on him.

which makes it all the more notable that he used it on him. ]