He wasn't wrong about it being isolating, and he probably wasn't wrong about her being like some of the people he used to work with. She was fighting against every instinct Section had drilled into her about not ever telling anyone what she did or why, and just hoping Phil was telling the truth about not wanting to use it against her.

She took a deep breath and reminded herself that if it went badly, if he turned out to want to use something against her, she was still armed twice over and even without it, she practically was a weapon.

"I'm going to be very bad at this," she warned him. "It's been conditioned into me - painfully, and I mean that literally - that I should not talk about any of this."