[He has trouble finding the right words for a second, because he is thrown, and a little moved...but also guilty.]

[Without meeting her eyes.]

No you haven't.

Luz is so good and the ra- uh, your son? He saved all of us. And Luz said Lilith was only ever trying to save you. You took all of them in but they're good people even if Lilith is...Lilith.

[His view of her is very colored by years of her being...her.]

I threatened you and your family, and tried to arrest Luz, and I've done horrible things. And I helped set Belos up for the Day of Unity.

[And what he did to all those Palismen over the years...]

[It's murder. Palismen are alive, they think and feel and can even talk. And he helped kill them.]

It's one thing for Luz and the others to give me a chance because it's just as much a way for me to do good things for them as it is for them to be my friends.

But you - you'd just be giving me something I couldn't give back equally.

[He knows he'd never be able to make enough to pay for his share of the rent.]

And it's different than someone like Jason offering when I haven't done anything to him or his world.