Danger exhaled, still annoyed with what she felt to be her own incompetence. Approaching Steve, she reached for his affected hand, taking it carefully but firmly in her own. She turned his hand over, back and forth a few time as if inspecting it, lightly pinching his mechanical finger and moving it herself, eying the place where metal melded with flesh.

At length, she spoke again, her voice low.

"I apologize, Steve. I may have inadvertently caused you to be put in this predicament."