Ronan has imagined his capture a thousand times. Declan made it impossible not to. It almost became a game between them. He would invent a hypothetical scenario and together they would run through solutions, deceptions, escape plans.

But even in their preparations for today, neither of them imagined Ronan simply walking out the door.

Caged in the costume of his kidnapper, Ronan leaves the safety of the Black Box, his own feet carrying him in confident strides away from his life. The brothers knew that people out there wanted to own the Greywaren. Neither of them understood how readily the Greywaren wanted to be owned. Ronan always had such a strong will, after all. So many years of fighting, only to go down without a fight.