"No," he says, and it comes quickly and almost definitively, but there's something like shame hiding behind that, too. Poison shifts a bit, but he's more or less given up trying to find a way loose. He's stuck, and Jack won't hurt him.

"I don't want it to come out at all. I keep thinking, what if I can't get it all back in? Or what if, once it's gone, there's just nothing left? I feel like I've been there before and I don't want to go back."