"Not when he first started being interested in me," Tally says. "I don't know, he was like... this mythical figure? He showed up at the Rusty ruins outside town to try to recruit tricky uglies to the Smoke. I never met him like that, but Shay did, and she always talked about him like some kind of, like, bubbly cryptid. I didn't think she really liked him. But then again... I should have known. She talked about him all the time."