"Faithless sedition," Jedao accuses, with no heat. With all the glances and turns, Jedao has to be quite quick to keep Fives from catching Jedao watching is ass as they ascend, but the rewards are more than worth it.

"It feels like a good place," he says, and means it, the messiness of so many generations, the spices of half a dozen different cuisines, someone crying and someone singing and someone hanging laundry. It's warm with the rhythms of life.