It is not the right thing to say. Athos stiffens suddenly at the reminder of why there is an ocean of icy distance between them and he remembers the tomb, the way Thomas had been so cold. His wife had killed his brother, then she had escaped hanging by seducing Remy. It all makes his head turn with grief and his stomach follow, until he casts his head to the side, to avoid her gaze.

"I am afraid proof has been incontrovertible as to who you are," he informs her, as if upset and determined to trust to what he knows. "Who do you work for?"