I've only asked you, [ Marcus says, after another sighed release of smoke. The prod within the question doesn't seem to jab anything very tender.

He is also now watching their path, content to ponder Leander's question -- it is meant, and so he thinks on his answer, content to lapse into some quiet to do so before he eventually says; ]

I don't want my asking to seem a matter of politics. I don't know what yours are, or if it matters to you, all that.