Of course you know! he wants to shout, and his hands twitch in Jedao's too-firm grip. If it were anyone else, Holden would have made a very sincere effort to punch them in the face. -- Of course Jedao knows; everyone is born knowing how to trust blind, they just forget.

And Jedao's first statement leaks into Holden's focus. That might be actually really fucking insightful -- because if there's one thing Holden can't do, it's just watching.

So he, teeth-grit and hating it more than a little, offers another compromise: "I'll tell you how I figured it out," he says. "Okay?" How, not when. He'll give partway, he'll swallow the anger, just give him something to show that he's not pissing in the wind, here, that there's hope for this idiotic warden-inmate thing.