Pyre looks stricken - Shiroe has struck on something.

“Look, man,” he says, losing his manic joviality for the first time. “It is special, what we do here, and Felix chose me because he knew I could handle it. He’s done a lot for me. For all of us. And maybe I’m still new to this, but this is me now, and it’s awesome. I don’t know why you newspaper people always have to be so unfair to m—-to everyone; it’s like you’re trying to tell the wrong story all the time. And yeah, maybe I liked giving them all a little scare, but people come to the show to get scared and it’s—that’s all it is.”