Aside from showing how judgmental Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Jerk Face are, this also indicates how much they want to push their own perspective of what is "good" for their daughter onto her. Maybe they just need to butt out, eat some demon peppers, and leave Eve alone.

It's not surprising that despite the Twins flaunting their social status and financial stability, they're unhappy, since they find fault in everything. They live in a McMansion, and they're still unhappy. What do they want? Oh, wait, we know this. They want custody of Zoë.

Great burn, Eve. You tell 'em. We would like to be more analytical here, but really, we're just impressed that Eve is so levelheaded even though her parents are callous jerks.

As an omen, the fact that Enzo brings up crows right after talking about Eve's worsening conditioning also seems like some pretty obvious foreshadowing to us. We also wonder whether it's a coincidence that angry crows and ravens, omens of death, are specifically mentioned in Chapter 13? Not that we're superstitious, or anything.

In this instance, it's not the distance that Denny is traveling that Eve is worried about—she's worried that she won't be able to keep the illness at bay when he's gone, and that she doesn't know how to fend for herself, taking care of a child and a dog alone, while also suffering this sporadic, crippling pain. She needs Denny, but she also promised she would be oaky if he left. So she has to keep that promise.

Denny is sensitive of Eve's needs, and he knows that in some ways he is helpless when her illness takes her, so he asks Enzo to act as intermediary, because it's all he can do. It's back to that theme of control: understanding when you can and can't act, and doing what you can in the meantime.

This notion that being a human is something you can prepare for is repeated often, but it seems like when Enzo says he prepares, he's focusing more on what he thinks humans are, rather than what they actually are.

Enzo's distrust of taking food from strangers stems from his experience with Maxwell's hot peppers. We don't blame him—those things sound really unpleasant to eat.

Eve's anger toward Denny and Zoë is less about Zoë's behavior toward her dinner and more about her anger toward Denny. Even's begun to feel ill here, and her fear of taking care of Zoë by herself makes her feel like Denny is undermining her parenting decisions. Simply asking Zoë why she didn't want her dinner would have probably made this whole thing avoidable, but hey, hindsight is 20/20.