Your average person might miss the way Claire busied herself with something else but Rean noticed and for a moment he was very thankful for her consideration. That of course did very little to sooth Alisa, whose trembling was being conveyed loud and clear thorugh the hold she had on his arm. The smile she showed him was a decent attempt and rather than point out the truth, he just let it slide while he slowly brought his hands up to hold Alisa's holding them both between each other as he stared back into those eyes with an apologetic and hopefully as ngenuine as he could muster, smile.

"Yeah so it is. We still have the Arcus at least."