"He doesn't want to hurt anyone," Greta insists. Johnny has been vague about the danger he poses - deliberately so - but if he truly wished to harm anyone, why mention it at all? The lad's not exactly imposing, and he'd be able to cause a lot more trouble by pretending to be harmless than he would by insisting that others avoid him. "And this," she adds with a Balladeer-encompassing gesture, "is the exact sort of--of damage that he's worried about causing."

She halts herself with a deliberate sip of tea, trying to prevent herself from getting too worked up and accidentally waking the children. Does he really think it's his job to monitor people just in case they should prove dangerous? That sounds a little too close to what ROMAC's been doing - though at least she believes in the purity of the Balladeer's intentions.

Sighing, she sets down her cup. "Is it what you do?" she asks, her tone gentler than it was before. "Listen in on all of our songs in case one of us starts feeling murderous? Have you been doing it to me, too?" She raises her eyebrows, a little challenging, but also genuinely curious. If this is just about Johnny, that's one thing; it's quite another if he's on some sort of one-man crusade to root out potential assassins.