"Yes." Skulduggery isn't her only source of information, after all. She just doesn't need to normally choke it out of him. But she does fix him with a rather serious sort of stare.

"He was concerned enough to try negotiating, right?" Which she knows of, but not the details of how that played out. "But a weakness that open to exploit, I'd understand downplaying," Ava runs her thumb over the edge of the closed pages of her book.

"But how much control that actually gives him over the Captain and this ship is directly proportional to... the need to destroy it."