Looking back, he can see how he's caught her out of something, but he doesn't know and won't ask what. She didn't want a hand up, she probably doesn't want much else, and it isn't the kind of thing he's good at with people he knows far better.

But if it was the paper that helped, he can keep digging that vein. "I put it upstairs in the storeroom, it looks like where they dump extra blankets and clothes when people disappear. I'll show you when we get there.

"What did you want it all for, anyway?"