"You'd be surprised." Running their circus was enough of a pain in the neck that even Daman mostly landed on sympathy.

"But, yeah. Alastair has power over us. Like, if he gives me a direct order, I have to obey it. Most of the time he doesn't have to do that because we obey his orders anyway, but...he can. If he has to. And a lot of the things the rest of us can do he can do just a little bit extra. Any of us can put a human to sleep with a touch." That probably came as news to Arden, but Gray was moving on to, "Al's the only one who can modify their memories. But what you really need to know about," and possibly the point of this entire presentation, "is that he knows when you lie to him."