"You know, those few people are always going to be someone's family too. Or they have no one and you rob them of the chance to ever have anyone." Hartley said it simply, not that he expected to have much of a chance of getting through to Axel, not while he wasn't on his meds. It was probably a bit sad that this was the closest he had gotten to talking to someone who knew the real him lately, but that was just life.

"What do you think of the name, by the way?" Best to stop talking about murder. "Elongated Man."