I'm counting on it. [Already down a member of the council, and hell if the others in it just for the profit wouldn't be shaken up from that. Try to take every little scrap they could before trying to pull out. Take themselves out so Reaper didn't have to worry too much about those and go for bigger fish.

There was already someone beginning to short-change Talon after all.

Barely holding it together perhaps something of an understatement. Hell, the only reason he wasn't physically falling apart was due to how stuffed he kept himself with emotionally charged foods and other methods to keep that fed. Otherwise? Otherwise he'd be little more than some monstrous blob of smoke with how he felt.

Another pull from the bottle—]

And look what I've gotten for it. Gotten soft, emotional. Better off keeping a distance than having any hope.