[If the other tells of corruption weren't there, this would be the giveaway -- usually, usually, Break notices when one of his kids is having some sort of quiet crisis in his presence. He may not pry into it, depending on this and that and the other thing. But he does pick up on this sort of thing, and tuck it away to consider later on.

Now, entirely oblivious to the way he's just pulled the ground from beneath Lucius's feet, Break triumphantly pulls a candy tin out of his hat and pries it open. As he tosses one to the boy, his omen, deprived of his playmate, leaps up into the chair across the table and sits politely with his paws folded on the placemat. In this moment, Baltus and all his horrible teeth are the closest thing this party has to a Cheshire Cat.]

It's true, it's true. It's not exactly an easy thing to create a whole dimension! I tore a hole between two of them once back in my own world, and that took the last of what strength I had left.

[Because while we are casually dropping truth bombs directly on Lucius's head, why not also reveal out of the blue that Break was tampering with the threads of reality before he found himself in Trench with glittering blood!]