"Yo!" she heard from the livingroom. After a moment, Cain stepped out from it. Seemed he had been watching some television.

"Welcome home." he greeted her.

"Want me to split?" he asked.

"Also, there's some commotion going on outside?" he then asked.

"What's going on?"

"Yes." Cain responded.

"That would be wonderful." he told her.

"You always have the best drinks." he chuckled.

"And he's apologising to the fae outside?" he then asked.

"Eeesh... good luck to him." he mumbled.

"Those fae hold grudges."

Cain accepted the drink and took a sip.

"Mmm." he mumbled.

"This is good." he said.

"And yeah... that... wouldn't be good." he then admitted.

About 5 minutes later, there was a knock on the back door, and when Angela opened it, she saw a heavily worn-down Zeke.

"...that was pretty much hell." he told her.

"I didn't know fae could do half of the things they did to me." he admitted further.

Zeke accepted the drink, and downed it.

Which... he probably shouldn't have done.

Immediately, both her and Cain saw his senses take a punch to the... whatever they had.

He almost fell over from it, but managed to swallow it.

"....GAH!" he exclaimed.

"Holy hell, you were NOT kidding!"

Zeke was still a bit stunned for a moment, before shaking his head.

"Well, it made me forget about what I just went through for a brief moment." he said.

"It was harsh going down. Harsh in the mouth." he went on.

"The aftertaste is... well, it's still there." he continued.

"Wouldn't take many of those to get one off their feet." he then said further.

"Kiah sure knows what she's doing."

Zeke was stunned for a moment, the thought of that running through his mind.

There was no way Angela would attempt such a thing knowingly.

...right?

Cain, meanwhile, just shook his head.

"Nuthin'." he replied.

"But knowing you, you'll insist on something, so... I dunno, enough to order a pizza, and we're good?" he suggested.

"...I'm sorry, Cain." Zeke then apologised to him, out of nowhere.

Cain was silent for a moment, and looked at the man.

"Meh, s'cool." he replied with a shrug.

"I'm here, I'm alive, and it's like it never happened." he reasoned, thumping where he'd been injured with his fist.

Zeke's eyes widened when she asked that.

And he almost looked ready to die from fear at that point, before he collapsed on a chair that was nearby, and started to shake.

"...things." he said. "Indescribable things." he went on.

"Painful?" Cain asked.

"You can say that." Zeke responded.

"Mental, physical, emotional, what?" Cain asked further, trying to get information.

"...existential." Zeke told them.

"Eh?" Cain mumbled.

"Have you ever experienced being unborn?" Zeke asked him. "Which is to say, the sensation of being unmade? Of having your essence unwoven from your very core, your very being?" he asked further.

"...he... did that to you?" Cain asked in response, his tone quiet.

"He simulated it in my mind." Zeke corrected him. "It was as real as could be, without actually BEING real." he went on.

"And that was the FIRST thing he did..." he then mumbled, trailing off some at the end.

Zeke just looked ashamed of himself, before they heard the door, and the footsteps.

And then he looked frozen with fear.

Absolutely terrified.

Cain just sighed lightly.

"Right." he said.

"I'd advise not looking like a deer in headlights in front of her." he told Zeke.

"Seriously. Poker face. ON."

Cain just laughed a little.

"Oh yeah!" he said.

"It's something I've been learning in my spare time." he told her.

"While I may not be able to experience eating as fully as... well, others... the act of making food is rather enjoyable, AND I can still appreciate the aroma of what I make, too." he explained.

"And if it makes others happy, even better." he added.

At the same time, Liv referred to Zeke as 'Dad' sent a metaphorical arrow through the nephilim's heart. How could he be called 'Dad' after what had happened, how he had been behaving?

"Ah... yeah..." he finally managed to get out.

"Sorry... sorry about not being here..." he apologised quietly.

"....." Zeke was stunned silent.

And Cain just sighed.

"I shouldn't be surprised." he said.

"...come to think of it, neither should I." Zeke mumbled.

"...but all right." he then said to Liv.

"So you know." he said further.

"That's it? That's your response?' he then asked her.

"You're not... uncomfortable or scared to be around me, knowing what you know?"