That was a significant admission, especially including the agency he worked for, and she respected that. She appreciated the trust he'd just shown her. She wasn't sure she'd earned it, but at the same time, she knew from her own experiences that sometimes a person in their world had to talk about the things they'd been through to have any chance of being a human.

"I was sent on a mission that I wasn't supposed to come back from," she said in turn. "They meant to get rid of a few of us, all at once, all nice and neat. 'Oops, they just didn't make it out before the place exploded'."