The Australian looked at Natalya, who had no expression on her face, and then at Sam. He watched the other man, unblinking, before slowly turning his attention back to Yorick.

"That would be interesting, if it were true. What were your mission parameters?" He leaned down, absently resting his elbow on his knee, heel kicked up on the center of Yorick's chair.

"Surely they had to have told you that."

Natalya shook her head, just fractionally, from side to side, and prayed Yorick saw it.