Last spark from the ashes

"We talked before about how there'd be people in the Nexus who knew the other guy." Easiest to adopt Steve's own term, ignore the twinge in her chest. The other guy would have done the same for her. "And as far as I see it you've handled them all real well so far. But-"

The glow of her eyes drops for a moment as she works out how she ought to phrase this, lifts again to look Steve in the eye. "Some of them reckon they'd have been happier with some forewarning about you. I figured we had no business spreading information about you to a bunch of strangers- but I didn't ask you about it either, and I should have. It ought to have been your call, not my assumption. I apologize for that."