He almost wants to ask her to get him one, but he resists, just letting her go while he stares down at his cocktail. When she returns she asks some rather salient questions and he shakes his head quickly.
"It—no," he says. "I mean, his recovery is just... part of his whole thing, the Eye... sort of protecting its assets, I suppose." He grimaces faintly at the clinical sound of that. "But the, erm, the killing isn't a usual thing, no. Not here. Back home it was a lot more dangerous, but this was just... it was a special case."
Not exactly comforting, and he's not sure how comforting he can be. Jacob Riggs is still out there, and he knows John is alive now. But they've got Daisy to keep John safe, and Martin can't imagine Riggs would go after anyone else. From what Martin could find out about him, he's historically been too smart for that.
Really, if anyone's put themself on the proverbial chopping block, it's him. But thinking about that makes his stomach drop, so he doesn't.
"We've got another friend from home who joined us a couple months ago," he says. "She's a lot, er, stronger than us. She's protecting John. And the rest of us by association." It's not a terribly broad leap to guess where the height of Blue's concern might lie, and he softens a bit as he says, "We won't let anything happen to Kat."
It seems appallingly stupid to make such a promise, not with the miserable track record of lost friends back home, but he does mean it. Things are different now. They've taken every possible step to ensure Kat and Eliot are kept on the periphery of their preexisting conditions, and with no real danger to speak of that doesn't exist outside their heads... it's fine. And Jacob Riggs will either make good on the arrangement John made, or Daisy will make some sort of lunchmeat out of him. It'll be fine.
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"It—no," he says. "I mean, his recovery is just... part of his whole thing, the Eye... sort of protecting its assets, I suppose." He grimaces faintly at the clinical sound of that. "But the, erm, the killing isn't a usual thing, no. Not here. Back home it was a lot more dangerous, but this was just... it was a special case."
Not exactly comforting, and he's not sure how comforting he can be. Jacob Riggs is still out there, and he knows John is alive now. But they've got Daisy to keep John safe, and Martin can't imagine Riggs would go after anyone else. From what Martin could find out about him, he's historically been too smart for that.
Really, if anyone's put themself on the proverbial chopping block, it's him. But thinking about that makes his stomach drop, so he doesn't.
"We've got another friend from home who joined us a couple months ago," he says. "She's a lot, er, stronger than us. She's protecting John. And the rest of us by association." It's not a terribly broad leap to guess where the height of Blue's concern might lie, and he softens a bit as he says, "We won't let anything happen to Kat."
It seems appallingly stupid to make such a promise, not with the miserable track record of lost friends back home, but he does mean it. Things are different now. They've taken every possible step to ensure Kat and Eliot are kept on the periphery of their preexisting conditions, and with no real danger to speak of that doesn't exist outside their heads... it's fine. And Jacob Riggs will either make good on the arrangement John made, or Daisy will make some sort of lunchmeat out of him. It'll be fine.