The silence in the wake of it says no, but this is a different thing. Maybe different only for the fact that Tony has not made the bargains Ellis has, never laid out the conditions of his death to be met one of two ways.

Maybe Richard does not know the shape of it, but he has a piece of that truth. They have not spoken of it since, but Ellis doesn't think Silas Atheris is a man given to forgeting.

His grip shifts; not enough to alleviate the rictus of his hold, but maybe enough to alter the quality of the pain it creates.

"Would you tell him too that he was not finished? That you required more of him?"