"True. No discounting the shittyness. But like, you probably can't turn it off 'cause feelings are like that. So just, try running right at with me instead huh?" It's risky sure, but it's unusually optimistic for Quentin too.

"You? Were a bully," he smiles a little. It's genuinely a difficult thing to imagine on the man he knows Kyle to be. Someone so obsessed with fairness. "It's ok, I'm not judging. I've been on both sides of that social dividing line," he shrugs. "Did you ever like... tell him that? Not that he was dumb, but that you know you maybe didn't treat him great."