"I don't want people getting hurt because of me," Arden admitted. "And I don't really know how to deal with that, you know? Callista always told me that if I ever got myself caught by the Duskwatch, she wouldn't lift a finger to help me. We've barely know each other for more than a few weeks--" Goddess, had it really only been that long? "--and you're already willing to stand between me and a death squad. I don't know how..."

How to process that. Not just that he might - that they all might - but once more putting into context how little Callista, Duke, or Grimm actually cared about her.

"But hey," she joked, turning away from that bleak thought to a differently bleak one, "just look at all we have in common."

Because yes, pot. She was, in fact, noting your hue.