"Both, actually." Have a look, Chase, with Caleb's expression somewhere between eyerolling and intense disappointment. "The Power, it's...it's your birthright just as much as it's ours, and all the books, the records...you deserved to have access to that stuff, and I'm sorry it didn't work out that way."

He's pretty sure that Chase is going to just think he's a sap for bothering to have any feelings on the subject to begin with but Caleb remembers what it was like to be thirteen, to be shown his father's everything and be told, look, this will be you if you're not careful. It was an added stressor on top of puberty and coming into a bit of Power already. If he was freaked out he can only imagine how Chase felt about it, essentially on his own.

At Chase's question, Caleb tilts his head in his father's direction. "He's the ultimate warning, being the way he was, but...he was also a person. He lived. I don't want anyone to die for me, or because of me."