Jason doesn't correct her this time, settles for lifting her bodily over the next root and it'd be a hell of a lot easier if they found a proper path, but he's kind of enjoying himself. She's like a little bomb he doesn't know when will go off, and she clings to him in a way that makes his perpetual fucking loneliness seem further away.

"If that's true than he's a bastard," he says and means it. Jason ran out of sympathy for unappreciative fathers long ago.