Joy of joys, the mutineers knew that Hickey had been obsessed with him. He wish he could say that it must have rattled and vexed Hickey to learn that Captain Crozier barely regarded him at all, but he'd seen firsthand how delusional he'd been.

"Ah," he nods. "He wanted me there to witness his glorious ascension into godhood."

But poor Billy Gibson, he seems almost...fondly exasperated? How deeply would it hurt him if he knew the truth of what happened to Hickey? He doesn't want to know, doesn't want to find that out.