[ It's a beautiful house and a beautiful moment. Inej looks so happy too, she isn't yet reunited with her parents, but it's soon after this. She has her plans to head out to sea, Kaz got her a boat she doesn't know about, but Wylan told him was coming. The only real tragedy of this was Nina and Matthias not being with them, the true waffle queen. ]

No, I wish. Selfish as that may be, I miss him.

[ At least Jesper knows it's selfish, although he thinks Wylan would like it here. Not a whole lot, but somewhat. He didn't want to be the new merchling lord, the only thing he'd probably miss would be his mother, but this isn't the worst place for him. Still, it's not the right thing to want. Jesper hasn't gotten out of the habit of wanting wrong things. ]

I was finally going to do it all right, you know. I stopped gambling, I quit being a criminal, mostly.

[ Jesper has never outright said what he did, but he did say mercenary. The rest of it could be filled in with whatever, but he knows what he was. That's what a gang is where he's from, crime is everywhere. ]

I promised I'd learn how to use my powers, he was going to discretely get a tutor. I was going to be a better person, for him, but also for me.

[ It's important that it was for both of them, Wylan always told him. It couldn't all be about him, otherwise Jesper wasn't doing it for the right reasons. His merchling has such a strong moral code, for a demolition expert. ]

And now I don't think I'm ever going to see him again.