Despite the situation they were in right now, Percy felt more relaxed than he probably had rights to be. He stretched his arms up to walk with his hands crossed behind his head as he looked up at the sky now lightening with dawn. It looked like a beautiful day. "Man, it's been a while since I saw a dawn," he commented before returning to the conversation, a softer sort of smile on his face.

"Yeah, we could," he said with a hum. After a pause, his smile faltered and he turned to face Kallen. "So are we going to do this? Are we totally breaking away from all of them?" He'd dropped his hands and now looked at the other boy with an earnest expression. "Because ya know, for some reason I really want to be in a gang with you." Percy couldn't say quite what that meant. He just knew it was true.