"So, the golden boy finally cracks," Kael said, his voice dripping with irony.
"Survive?" Kael laughed, a harsh, grating sound. "In this city, survival is a luxury. We're not people anymore, Elias. We're products. We're monsters created by their expectations." Shawn Mendes, Justin Bieber - Monster
The rain continued to fall on Neo-Toronto, but for Elias and Kael, the city no longer felt like a prison. They were finally free, two monsters in a world that had tried and failed to tame them. "So, the golden boy finally cracks," Kael said,
Kael, on the other hand, was the veteran, the one who had seen it all. He had been the golden boy once, too, but the industry had chewed him up and spat him out, leaving him scarred and cynical. He had retreated into a world of excess and rebellion, his every transgression documented by the tabloids. He was the cautionary tale, the monster the public loved to hate. We're not people anymore, Elias