Just like that, Micah sobers; all traces of amusement drop from his face. "OK, but you do realize how deeply fucked-up that sounds, right? 'L was the objective?'" He's not angry, per se, just intense; still, his words take on a sharper edge as he glances back and forth between Nathan and Lazarus. "L was a person. And he was really important." He'd at least been able to gather that much of Mello's feelings about L from the Echo, the memory of meeting the other man. "Saying that there was a competition to take over for him after he was dead ... that's just morbid."