"Don't we all?" Edgar said without judgment. Grantaire and Neil definitely had a hell of a lot more in common than they'd probably ever sat down and discussed. All three of them were a little more broken than they liked to say and thought they hid it well but it all came out when they were together. When they were safe.

"I think Curtis was afraid to love. Can't blame him, world we came from," he said. In some ways, he wasn't so different. His first year of Darrow had been spent fucking around, ignoring the possibility of anything permanent.