He's certainly not beyond contact, but at times like this his ability to reach out is reduced to nearly nothing. It's a challenge to even remember that he's lived through this before.

"Not the last," he says quietly. It might never actually get through to Selina that he cares because he wants to, not because he's obligated to. But, then again, he's not there to seek her approval. Only to be there.

"And he's not— dead. He's just not here. A-and he— he's got a bad habit of gettin' himself into— into shit, so it's prob'ly not even— We'll prob'ly see him again. In a— in a month, or a couple. He's just not here," Blake repeats. "Not right now."