Rhys had done what he'd had to when faced with an invisible, in audible boy who was forgotten even when people did catch a glance of him. he'd not told anyone because there was nothing he could prove or do.

"Don't blame Rhys. No one else could see me. And they wouldn't have believed him that he was trying to help a hedge mage who was trapped in the Pit. The would've said he was hiding him when they couldn't find me."

And Cole wouldn't have been found.

"I don't harm anymore. And I've never caused hurt. I know I scare you; you scare me too. Deep in my bones, cold aching, knot in the gut like starving, but resting under my ribs." He touches his solar plexus. "Reed knows. I met him. We talked. Cassandra knew. If I hurt anyone, you have to stop me. You think of me as 'it', you can do it if it must be done."