"Don't listen to her," Cal said at almost the same time. "Again, this was all my idea, you can do whatever you feel is necessary to me, but Arden didn't do anything wrong."

At this point, BD-1 finally made his way up into the tower as well. "They're both lying, I sent them here," he said, perching on Cal's shoulder with the saddest of beeps.

"Buddy, you really should have stayed below," Cal replied.