The key turns in the lock. The door opens. He is careful not to rush. He is more careful not to delay. Though the wait was necessary, he has made her wait long enough. He sits down across from her, hands where she can see them. He wears a shirt with barely a tear in the collar.

"Let me start at the beginning of my journey. It isn't a long story, but it will explain everything I know..."

It isn't the only story he could tell and, to be honest, it may not even be the wisest. A much shorter rundown of who he is and how she got to be here might be all that is necessary to share. Who knows? Maybe Assassins think Synnefo who can't stomach the Service are failures and cowards. If he has learned one thing today, it is that he truly does not know anything about assassins, and what little he does know is probably wrong and liable to get himself almost killed. Why would he assume a Deodekoi would be unaware of her powers and mission? What myth made him think that? It was a silly idea, in hindsight.

Wise or not, she deserves to know who she's dealing with if she's to have any say in what happens next.

So he tells her of a chef who wanted something better, and failed to find it in civic service. He tells her of a miracle snatching hope from certain tragedy, and his small part which ended in a polite loss of freedom. When he approaches the subject of his visit with the Architect, he checks in a few times to see how she is doing, and if he needs to abridge events any further for her sake. However the news is delivered, he tells her of an assassin who was thwarted and imprisoned, then delivered into the hands of a chef. He tells her how they have spoken before - and runs a finger along his collar - but this is the first conversation they've been able to have. He tells her she won't remember any of this. He tells her he has no way to prove any of that.

"I want to help get you out of there, but I don't know how to do that without you trying to kill me." And he speaks of it with no accusation or judgment. There really is no offense taken. "I'd also really rather you didn't kill anyone else?"