'No Pandion' - the smile is not really a smile, more like a shadow of the choking sensation when Candice first (finally) told him what caballero means. Martel knows he still says 'we' when he isn't thinking about it, though, and says nothing at all for a few moments.

It's probably a good thing that the nexus library is this sprawling and ridiculous thing, like anything else here; somewhere else, he thinks distantly, they'd have already been hissed at for being too loud. His quiet isn't anything like 'being considerate', though, he's just taking a moment to decide if he wants to know.

(Of course he wants to know.)

"Go on," he says, leaning against the shelf. "Perhaps I'll sleep easy with it." Probably not, you cynical fuck.