"Oh don't worry, there's a complete private hard drive on all the things that can't kill me, and no doubt what hasn't been tested yet," he remarked bitterly, shaking his head. He knew first hand how Talon allowed people to slip away, and that was only in body bags or a deep hole. Thankfully buried alive was not a method that worked on him. "No doubt Talon is trying to find some kind of contingency plan. I expect vacuum system to a sealed container."

The kiss was good but also necessary. It was the first real kiss they had shared now as a dating partnership, and it shouldn't feel different but definitely did. He savored to closeness and the way that Jack seemed to melt into the contact, how gentle they kept it, almost with a bit of tentativeness like neither of them believed this was real.

"I know," he murmured even as he kept their foreheads pressed together lightly. "It's going to get ugly with the Recall, but it hopefully will be useful to draw some of the unseen elements closer to the surface." Where he could find them and interrogate them for information that would lead him to others. "Be careful like Ana, you idiot. Maybe drink more tea to keep you in some state of grandma zen."

He nodded his head, rubbing their foreheads together as he lingered in that spot leaned over Jack and feeling those hands on him. "And it seems like this might be the place to work together." Like they had and would be doing more and more.