trapped within an abstract from a moment of my life

JACK

"Maybe we do," Jack agrees without hesitation, and the words might as well have dripped through an old hourglass like golden grains of sand. Because if they'd come up with a plan together in the first place, perhaps... Perhaps, perhaps. "Mm? Ah, finally - a secret of yours I can keep. Might be that we're even one of these days," he adds, though he offers a small nod nevertheless. "It never leaves this room."

For the captain's part, he mulls his words over for a few moments before, with a long sigh, he finally lets them loose. "I've been hangin' out with the kid more lately - Vesper," he says. "Been playin' around with the magic we share. It's teachin' me a lot about trust that I doubt I'd have learned otherwise. Teachin' me that I ain't exactly been fair to you, when it comes to what you know an' what I was willin' to give."

Letting his fingers drop from the lock of her hair, he leans back on his hands again and scrunches his nose to consider Dahlia in the grand scheme of things, not to mention in her new and weakened state. "I dunno," he says honestly. "She's never been isolated like this from the rest of 'em. Who knows what she'll respond to; threats, bribes, blackmail. It's a lot of unknowns."

no more than I was or than I want to be
when you fall on me like night, I wanna kill the lights

Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!