Adam is thankful that Ronan doesn't push it. Ronan might push boundaries with a certain amount of ease, but that's not Adam's way without knowing a little of what he's getting into first. Probably, the longer they're here, the more Adam will push those boundaries with Ronan. Right now he's just in too deep in unfamiliar territory.

"Stay out of the back of the police car, okay?" Adam says. "At least for a little while until we know what there is to know." Of course, he's speaking metaphorically. But he has no idea how to get Ronan out of the back of the police car in this place just yet. Eventually, hopefully, he'll know the ins and outs of getting Ronan out of trouble here.

It doesn't surprise him that Ronan didn't win. Neither of them are all that athletic and have never been to war. But the fact that it happened begs the question. "Did they give you a reason why you had to play war?" Were they expecting war? With who?

"They're trying to." He answers of the drugging. "Just don't take the pills. I'm not sure... if they'll ever try to force us to take them or not. But..." He shrugs. The idea of people drugged, of not being in his right mind and being unable to just go fix a ley line to make it better, disturbs him on so many levels. Adam Parrish is a boy who likes to be in control of himself.