It's easy and comfortable with Felix. Which was weird, and should worry Peter a lot, but he hasn't been close to anyone in such a long time that it feels amazing just to have this. Thinking about the future might bring just with them working together and seeing where all of this led.

"Lightning," he says without hesitating. "Like the ozone in the air right before a strike. Like copper all sharp and tangy. Like earth and life," he says. It's so much more, A million things to his sensitive nose, but that's what it all makes him think about.