"You can make it up to her by getting out of whatever this is safe," says Leon, resolutely. "Then it's just a question of if she'll forgive me for telling her you were dead."

It's a joke, but a heavy one, and one that comes with the question: how are you not? He doesn't expect Luis to answer - he'd seemed just as surprised as Leon was, if not more - but he watches him carefully all the same, just in case there is some hidden insight he's picked up since then.