"Yes," If this asks a touch more precision than he's put into mending soldiers' split faces, "I'm very good at this."

Arrogant and true, and fishing for reaction: For a glance up from that ponderous floor, and the harbor somewhere below. (He is very good at this, and he hasn't a notion how it's undone.)

"Kept me five years out of the Circle," They toss corpses at sea. He would like her to look up. "When your man's back with the references —"

Which must be any minute now.