The smile did wonders for his appearance, and a small smile appeared unbidden on her own face. It was good.

She looks back down again at his second pronouncement. "I don't know if they'd let me leave," she said, which was true, but it was also true that she was worried about him. She had to make sure he would live, partly out of curiosity and partly out of a complicated tangle of emotions that Cassian now evoked that she didn't want to examine too closely out of fear of what she'd see. "Is that all right? That I'm here?"