Salo is different now. More independent, more sure of himself. He’s no longer the young man who begged them to stay with him in Yonte Saire. He doesn’t need us anymore, she realizes. In fact, Salo begins to spend less time with them and more time alone, locked inside his cabin, insisting he must dedicate himself to the task of rebuilding his Axiom. To rub salt on the sting, he still finds the time to take walks around the ship in the company of the countess and Gregoire Silver Dawn.
