[He had a name. Of course he did. He doesn't know why he thought the boy had just been saddled with a code name, and that's how he'd lived his life. No. But it reminds him, these were both children. Cipher ruined them.]

[They shouldn't have had to live like that. Even if this man kills him, he's still the boy that hid from the world in Africa.]

...I really don't understand this possession through an arm thing, but I guess it makes as much sense as anything else that's happened. [From sad drunken pondering to bewildered drunken pondering in a heartbeat.]