[ Josh actually wonders if Derek always telegraphed so much, and it's just that he didn't bother to listen. Because it's there, even if it's not the usual human line of communication. Nora did that; maybe he'd finally gotten used to it.

Either way, he's not quite sure what "hear the lie" means. The twins' dad claimed he could smell fear, but that wasn't really the same thing, was it? ]

Fine. I can dodge them until it's taken care of, shouldn't be hard.

This is for them, too. You know that, right? It isn't really a cure. It doesn't make you more human.

[ And that's the real reason he's helping, why he's not just cutting ties now that he can do it clean; he lost the moral high ground that day, and he can't get rid of the feeling that he owes some kind of debt. ]

And it might not be true. Wherever you come from, it could still just be a myth, but - I guess that doesn't make it any less dangerous.