It was unwise, returning to the same place over and over again when you were just so godsdamn memorable, Apollo acknowledged (though not like, out loud) that it risked... well, this exact thing. But the rewards. "For the boys," he told her. "I could tell you about what it feels like to build that brotherhood between them, to help each of them excel in their own field, to see them become men. But the simplest—" and currently most significant to this conversation "— answer is that I created that community, how could I leave after a few years and turn my back on it? Abandon it? I couldn't, not ever."