He pulls up the transcript. Reads it. Listens for evil Maitimo leaving the range of his hearing, several flights up.

"He could have lied. It could have worked - damn it -"

"Moreover," says Cam, "it could've worked on you - if you'd asked - Nechar says you didn't but -"

"But I could have convinced him it was no one else's business -"

"Yeah."

"And I am really not happy about suggesting to your evil alt that he go read a guy's mind, like..."

"You're really not going to be happy with anything I say to him, if I'm aiming at 'get him to trust me'. There's probably a principled way to draw a distinction but I'm navigating it a bit blind. I'm sorry. If I were evil and covering for it I don't think I'd have told you..."

"There's 'saying sketchy things with unpleasant implications' and there is 'getting an innocent bystander actually in real life mindread unbeknownst to him'."

"I am very sure it'd have occurred to him anyway. But yeah. I'll - be more careful. He's warned now? There's - no way to warn the healer -"

"Nechar's warned and I asked him if he can cover her too and he said he'd try and it'd probably work."

"Thank you. I'm sorry. 

- if you think of another way to verify - there just isn't much point in me suggesting any -"

Cam gets up and goes over to Bar. "You can hear what goes on in Security, right -"

Yes.

"Would you tell me, if...?"

I do not make a habit of volunteering this sort of information but nor do I keep it confidential when asked.

"Please tell me what my Maitimo has asked Nechar for."

And he gets a list. And he relaxes.

Cam goes and sits by him again.

He leans on him. Very tentatively.

Wing goes around Maitimo. "Sorry," he murmurs. "It just kind of keeps coming up, doesn't it..."

"Yep. It's not anywhere near the most bad thing about the situation but it's - not pleasant -"

Snuggle. "Sorry."

"Wouldn't want you to blindly trust me, or pretend you did while verifying in secret -"

Nod. Squeeze.

"If Bar didn't know I considered suggesting you fork my cousin but."