She absorbs the numbers without a word, biting her lip without even realizing it. She's at least able to keep that personal and entirely stupid grudge about Stark's tact to herself enough to acknowledge that he's good, that he may well be one of the best people to have Ghost's back. It's a good thing to know.

It's not enough. People leaving - of all things, that she should be prepared for. They do it all the time here. (They do it all the time always.) But this is different, this is dangerous and unsure.

But she's too proud to ask him to stay for her, and too unwilling to use the influence she does have to try to make him do anything, so she stops letting numbers run like a train track through her brain and straightens up, covering his hand with hers.

"You know how to do this better than I do."