[A charm point? He thinks so, yes. He blows a ring of smoke, amused, while she turns it into incense. How quaint.]

Private interests... Yours is your family? Your granddaughter?

[The brothers had mentioned that, too. It wouldn't be the first that Thomas has heard of Iona--he remembers the very funny tale of a ruined job concerning an urn--but he hadn't given it much thought until very recently.

Honestly, he forgot all about it.]

Loyalties lie where they lie. I can't blame you for that. But, selfishly, I hope we can remain on good working terms. We are not so... bad of a group.

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We simply do dirty work sometimes.