Of course it didn't just end up there.

[ He's trying. Very hard to treat this like it is normal. Very, very hard. See, he's making light. He stays out of immediate range but only just so, to give her the ability to lash out, if she wants to, but not so close that she feels threatened.

Silco knows very well how to hold back. He's spent half of her life doing so. He ran a hand through his hair, to settle it back into place. She says she's been talking to him. Even when he's not there, and there's something that coils in his chest, like pain, like disappointment, like lead in his belly. That he wasn't there. ]

I saw something I knew how to do, Jinx. [ He doesn't excuse it. She's right. He wasn't looking for the king. Vander, well. He has his reasons for that. Jinx can hear that later. She's more mad about this, he knows. ]

They put me in the right position, they gave me the keys to do it. [ So yeah, he hadn't really gotten involved with the King. Would anyone had ever wanted him there anyway? Absolutely not. ]

I'm adapting. [ Being out of his comfort zone, he means. ]