"If you'd had your motorcycle, chances are it would have attracted too much attention to be any use to you," I point out. Perhaps he can well understand the conclusion that underlies all of that: because of how much attention it would attract, I wouldn't have allowed him to use it. Whether or not he would have listened to my instruction is, of course, another matter.

"There aren't many boys your age on the island, Damian. With Jason being rather talkative, I also suspect that a great deal of people know the other names we go by." There was no one within hearing range, last I checked, but I do a brief sweep once more— again, nothing. "But the less that they know about all that we can do, the better."