He had seen her hair. It was kind of hard to miss. There was a lot of it. He had no idea it was actually powered by anything, though, so Luca listens with rapt attention to the story.

"I mean, I definitely can't blame you for that. I've done so many things my parents didn't want me to do that I almost got sent to the Deep. Besides, you wanted to help."

But he assumes that there's more to the story, because Varian wouldn't be hesitant to share it if things didn't go very, very wrong somewhere.

"What happened?"