Yes, he had to be awake for that for reasons that I’m totally not just making up right now on the spot.

Deakin’s elf buddy is named Malhavoc Maeral (“mal” is pronounced like shopping mall, “havoc” is more like havOWk–I felt giving him a big grandiose name seemed appropriate to his demeanor.  He’ll get an intro box when he actually has a line, which will come up, but I felt that in the context of Deakin’s story, he wouldn’t have bothered to mention the name, so it seemed appropriate to leave it out of the actual page.