Ah... do you think that to be true...?

[ voice low again, he looks between the two of them, unsettled, wishing one or the other would make this situation go away ]

Ah, but- that is to say, it is not as though I did not have help either, but it did not function quite so radically different that it would have been impossible...

[ especially for an assassin. they can sneak into places. and kill people. and sleep in their beds.

assassins. ]