It sounds like a delightful memory, but one of someone lost as well. He can't remember having anyone other than Ex, but then Ex had his brother and he knew he would back up the other man on anything with his brother. No matter how much trouble it got them into but then being here was trouble as well.

Meridian nods at that. "He's the only thing that has ever mattered. I would destroy the world for him," he says, sounding so casual about that but he means it. Every word of it. "If he hadn't made it, I suspect I would have been your next job," he says, and he suspects that's the truth as well.