He does, much to his own surprise. And not just the words, though there have been plenty of those. Actions speak louder, or so they say, and she's done a hell of a lot in the past hour or so since they first met. She turned a simple sparring session to let off some steam into a pointed psychological assault on his oldest source of anger and frustration, refused to let him drown away the revelation, and now she's letting him have some kind of fighting chance at pool. Maybe for fun, maybe for some other reason known only to her.

"Maybe not," he concedes.