"What part of 'keep your voice down' did you interpret as 'give me a lecture'?" As much as Jason just wants Maxwell gone, the petty, vindictive part of him surges up through his body with another wave of nausea, his hatefulness given extra bite from the pain of the migraine. And so he doesn't just let it go, just let Maxwell have the last word. Instead he summons the Avox again with one hand that's near trembling.

"Take the candle and vandalize it. Deface it, carve rude words into it, mash it up and spit on it. Then flush it down the toilet."