[ It's always a... vulnerable affair. Letting someone see him apply his medications, or even dispense it. Despite the fact that it's necessary — the thing that keeps his eye functional — it isn't a pleasant treatment, by any stretch of the imagination. If anything, it's more harrowing to see it in person. It's one thing to know someone is injecting medications into his eye.

It's another thing to see it happen. It's not something he's allowed many other people to see. Jinx was it, really, and Tezcatlipoca was now in a Very exclusive club.

He pulled out a kerchief to start padding at the edges of his eye. ]

I would question your taste in buddies, certainly. [ So, yes. ]

I'm not your keeper, am I? I understand that gods can be friends and rivals all in one.

[ He's learning! ]