Peridot was very silent and very still at that, just looking at Jason intently for a good ten seconds before sighing, nodding, and taking a seat beside him.

"Okay. Then I'll wait here with you."

He made no sense. No sense. It shouldn't have been possible. But he hadn't been incorrect, either; she could tell that the gouge on his head was already healing, and none of the simulations that Dr. Lecter had provided in class had done anything like that.