Kai practically threw his breakfast dishes into the sink, letting them clatter around dangerously.

"Hey," Cole warned, a stern reprimand ready on his tongue.

"Sorry," Kai muttered, but he didn't sound all that sorry. He sounded angry, which was unsurprising given the situation, but which was also probably unhelpful.

Cole said as much. "Getting angry isn't going to help."

"Yeah, but it can't really hurt, can it?" Kai challenged.

"It can if Zane gets stuck in his memories of Azizi's experiments again like he did at the party. He might think we're angry at him instead of angry at the situation," Lloyd pointed out.

Kai appeared to think about that for a moment. "...Okay, I could see that. So what would help, then?"

"Probably doing the same thing we did last time, just acting calm and reassuring," Cole mused. "Hopefully Zane, Nya, and Jay can figure out why that happened and fix it so it doesn't happen again, though."

"But they might not fix it," Kai said, scowling, "I hate this."

"Me too," Lloyd agreed.

"Me three," Cole sighed. "Out of all the enemies we've faced, the Skulkin and the Serpentine and the Stone Army and everyone, it was just an every-day person who really hurt us."

"Who really hurt Zane," Kai added, then hesitated. "Although by hurting him, she did hurt all of us, but in a less obvious way. More of hurting us inwardly than all the physical and mental ways she hurt him."

"How do we go forward?" Lloyd wondered, changing the topic slightly.

Kai and Cole looked at him.

"Like, how do we recover?" Lloyd clarified. "How do we go about life knowing that Azizi is out there with all this information about Zane and how to hurt him and we can't do anything about it?"

"She can't do anything either," Cole pointed out.

"She can't do anything more," Kai corrected, frowning. "She's already done too much."

"So how do we go forward with everything she's done?" Lloyd repeated.

"I guess we just do whatever we can to help Zane," Cole mused. "That's really all we can do."

"But what if he doesn't want our help?" Kai asked. "You guys saw the way he tried to hide that mark on his arm. What if he acts like nothing happened?"

"Then we wait until he does want our help and do everything we can think of to help him in the meantime," Cole said determinedly.

Kai and Lloyd nodded in agreement.