[ Arcee's starting to think that cautiously keeping things to herself might have been the wrong route to take with this. She could keep playing it safe, but that's not going to get her very far, and she thinks that the longer she tries to play dumb, the more suspicious she'll seem. And if Orion trusts her...

She hesitates a moment, hovering, and drops her voice. ]

He's...a friend. Sorry, I...might have exaggerated my ignorance there. You're the friend who helped him out, aren't you?