Mikodez says, very flat, “Try anything with my cousin and I’ll show you nothing personal on a pyre fit for Kel.”

He spends the next three seconds wishing for a door to slam like a teenager while he figures out why he’s this touchy over someone he avoided talking to all trip. But since he’s started, he might as well dig himself in some more. “You and Ashari both,” he says, dredging up his sister’s impressions of her first girlfriend’s parents.

[Have a good trip!]