It's not as if Shaw really had any other reason to believe otherwise. She's met enough wardens who've already gotten one deal that she's pretty sure she would have been given a head's up if the Admiral sometimes reneged. But it's a relief to hear anyway, and she leans back against the headboard, closing her eyes.

"I haven't told anybody what I told you, either," she says. Trevor and Quill got the barest of facts, but that barely counts.