"Exactly." He laughs as well. "Just watching stuff happen is pretty incredible." Taking the initiative can be so overrated.

Greg looks down at his hands. "You figured it out before me. Thanks for pushing me in the right direction." But he sighs, shakes his head. "He's usually so bright and optimistic. He's a real force of positive energy."

Usually the thought would make him smile, cheer him, give him the strength to keep going. But he hasn't seen his son showing any of that joy or exuberance that always seemed to define him. "Luce, I... I don't know how much is what Pride put in him, and how much is... what they've done to him."