"I know that." He knows that's objectively true and he says it plainly. "But his needs seemed more urgent." Malcolm looks over. "Before I came here... maybe you read it when you had my file. But before I came here, my father escaped from prison and they asked me to find him. And at every turn they didn't listen to me and at the same time they accused me of maybe not really wanting to find him and everything that has happened since Lestat stabbed me has felt exactly like that week. I thought it was different here. I thought I had real friends here, but it's just the same kind of... you know what JT said to me when I was trying to convince them of a fact of the case that I'd figured out and they weren't listening and my hand started shaking? He said 'I've seen that hand shake when you're ordering a mochaccino.' My friend." He slumps slightly, his voice quiet when he concludes "I was really trying to make friends with Eiffel. He's close to a lot of people who are important to me."