"I haven't told any." Colin can feel that weight in his chest, the fluttering of his fingers, and he briefly observes that he's dying. All the signs of a full-blown panic. "Someone else might have leaked it. I knew I shouldn't have, I knew I shouldn't have told anyone, I should have just kept to myself and stayed quiet."

He sounds irritated and terrified in equal measure, reaching up to pinch the bridge of his nose like it's going to hold in the words boiling over and spilling out of him.