Was it not my willingness to jump into a fight with very few questions? [She sounded amused even as she said it. At this point in her life, she was pretty good at recognizing when someone was looking around for back up for the right reasons. She traded in secrets. Most of them tended to come out sooner or later.

She could hear the sound of the cards in his hands, and her mouth quirked into a little smile.] In my experience it's almost always the poker game. [Or the dinner. Or the business meeting. Or interrogation. She was flexible in how she got her information. And in how she got herself back out of the hot water.] Though I did an off books mission once that went really south. Once I had everyone tied up, we had over an hour to wait before my extraction team could come through. One of the guys tried to get me to play poker to pass the time.