Abby's eyes go to the glove once the smoke passes her by. She scoffs. "What, did you chase each other into a rift?"

She's spoken to Lia once, not enough to get an interesting backstory out of her (only that she's a real flirt and dislikes the sight of a plain, stone wall). Her current impression of Desidério is not dissimilar: a flirt who likes a smart, snappy conversation, smoking; writing to his mother.

Testing him, Abby says, "Surely the money doesn't bother you. You'll get paid here."

It must be something else.