Of all the things to say. Her attention shifts back, sharp, needling, yet casual. "I don't expect to."

Which is to say she's better than that. She's been playing this game for a long time -- though not as long as him -- enough that she owes much her current standing to it. And when something has served you well for this long, it doesn't make sense to doubt it, especially not when circumstances are at their most dire.

"Doesn't mean you can't still tell a lot just by looking. And I expect we'll need to be doing a lot of that soon." Anything less, would be foolish, naive, an accession to fate even. But not tonight. Tonight she has a date with a bottle full of the worst intentions.