"No," Alex retorted. "You're just not sure any of this is real. What does that make me? Some kind of vision in your mindscape? That's where I want to get you. To know that this is an awful place, but it's as real as counts." Although, to be fair, he probably would have thought differently when he first got here if he'd known about the mindscapes. He hadn't known much about Michael's powers back then. Michael himself hadn't know much about Michael's powers back then, not with each of them thinking they only had one.

"That's the page I want. Anything else..." Them. Michael and Kyle. "...that can come with time and I'm not going to push because this place is weird enough without the rest of it."

Even if it made his heart hurt and all he wanted to do was kiss Michael again. Because Alex never felt relief that someone was back home because he didn't know that they did go home. He wasn't any kind of an optimist. He was a pessimist who worked hard to create something better and knew he wasn't likely to succeed as much as he wanted. And here, how much he could do was extremely restrained.