Collins chewed on his lip. The question hit straight to home and that bothered him. He suddenly dug into the bottom of his lip enough to cause it to bleed, then he stopped altogether. The red stayed staining his lip.

He smiled. "I confess there are some complexities to this world that I don't fully understand yet." He knocked one of his knees gently against one of Givens's. "I read as much as I could in tha library of that prison, but it ain't quite tha same, you know? You know."