The ragged absence where Ellis’ childhood home comes into sharp focus as Tony makes this office. Maybe it influences his answer, maybe not.

“Aye, I would.”

This part of Tony and Wysteria both, this need to know is not difficult to recognize by now. And Ellis understands it clearly enough to parse when it’s absence in himself is too much for them to take in stride.

It matters, that he asks. That he knows these things. That he cracks open the tomb in his chest enough for long-buried curiosity to stir.

“If you don’t mind returning to it.”

Is it painful to be in that place?