It helped, he realised, not to look at Maxwell's face. Because if he did, the words and the face jarred, made no sense. Here was the face of a stranger, but here were the words of a close friend. Few outside of the Inner Circle knew about Dorian's father.

Save, apparently, for Jason.

"Bigger men when I was still able to electrocute them alive, if I chose to," Dorian said wryly, avoiding the direct question. "If I thought it was more than I could handle alone, that would be a different story."