"No, I've died three times now," he announces, then winces. Ugh, he does not have enough of a handle on this. But he can divert, because Ashford just said something odd right before that.

"The lantern fixers are working pretty hard though, I guarantee you. They're still practicing. You been by the labs at all?"

He did say fixers, right? "You do know Dr. Solis is gone, right?"