He'd heard that Darrow could be weird, about how it took people from the same place, but from different times. But hearing that Darlington doesn't know about one of the biggest things Alex could possibly tell him is... That just seems cruel.

But then he thinks of how he'd found out, how he'd put the pieces together.

"But, wait," he says. "This means you decide how he finds out. You get to tell him, the same way you told me."