Ren tilts his head, thinking back on the interaction with Igor and wondering if shamed is the right term. He'll probably never really know; Igor is always inscrutable, with his fucking smile and his deathly allergy to being straightforward.

"I wonder if he was," he says. "Ashamed, I mean. He definitely hadn't thought about a reward until I showed up. And he said he was grateful to us, but only after I'd shoved it in his face that he owed us, so maybe he hadn't thought about that, either. Who the hell knows?"