"Then we forget involving Ambrose for now," Kylo suggests. "We go out from the city, into the mountains. I've seen them. There are places we could go. Wild and empty."

The rest hardly needs to be said, but Kylo leans in anyway. He likes the way Ronan's mind seizes on opportunity first, and only then allows the doubts to filter in. It may take time and practice, but Kylo feels certain he can help Ronan silence his fears with an accumulated weight of evidence. Mastery, one success at a time.

"We go out there and create something we can show him."