Sparkle fell quiet for a minute as he chewed on that statement, letting Atton drag him... wherever Atton was headed. He trusted him, by this point, to get him out of here in more or less one piece. He'd sent Sparkle in first, but he was also the one to come and get him again.

"... Think buddy'll last that long?"

Sparkle wasn't a big fan of getting himself killed for other people, and he wasn't a big fan of the cops, either. But just letting someone die when it was a matter of making an anonymous tip or something seemed...

... Seemed like...

Well, he didn't like it.