"I did not want that either," Bastien says, and maybe it's not true — maybe, possibly, there was a reason Byerly's death is what sent him searching for his parents and his big sister after all that time — but he thinks it is. He certainly didn't want or expect it from anyone in the Gallows, each reeling from losses of their own. "I didn't want anything except for you to not be gone."

At the club talking about the alternate timeline where everyone died — he kisses the crown of Byerly's head and drags (get it?) them out of the mire.

"I do owe him for the soup," he says. Benedict coming to check on them when they were hurt — that was sweet.