"I can't help it that my vacation is adjacent to yours."

That teasing, faux-nonchalance pervades and he pretends not to notice the way she eyes him, instead staring at trio of cards that they've stopped at.

"That sounds about right," he says, grimacing. "Though tensions had been slowly cooling before all of this."

There's always suspicions and theories being tossed around his own circle of trusted contacts. Friends. Jack exists on the periphery of all that, though. They don't talk about current events much.