"Yet one more thing we have in common," John says with a small smile. He'd never learned how to step into a leadership role either. It's one thing to take directions from someone who knows what they're doing and it's something else entirely to be the one telling people what to do.

He can work by himself, he can formulate plans and enact them with ease, as long as he's the only one in danger. If something were to happen in Darrow and he threw himself headlong into the problem, he'd come out on the other side relatively unscathed, but he would have to do it alone. Directing others just isn't something he knows how to do.