Neal nods, silent, and looks out the window again himself. He grips the cup a little too tightly, letting the heat of it sting his palms.

He's been thinking about this, thinking about it long and hard and privately, and he wanted to tell Norton first--but maybe Hakkai deserves to know.

"I'm leaving the barge," he says, softly. "Maybe not forever. Probably not forever. But who I was in that room is... not someone I want to be. I need to figure out where he came from, and I need to figure out how to keep him from coming back."