"Silco's always known the score when it came to me. If I ever decided he wasn't doing the job anymore..."

He would end up like Vander had. It wasn't a secret between the two, her and Silco, how she would kill him all the same. Same as she did Finn, same as she did Smeech. There was no lack of certainty there when she said that, but when Vander brought up the meeting, it was there again. She twitched her lips and glanced away from Vander, back to Theobold's shop.

"I told you all everything you needed to know," she told him after a small silence where she simply smoked and watched the next fool wander into the robot's store. That itself wasn't a lie. It also wasn't the full truth.