['if it's you, it's fine' makes him blush, even if the conversation is far from pleasant]

It was... too planned. Not that I think planning is something you can not do, of course! But... I feel if you did attack someone it would be a crime of passion, not an assassination. A building of tension over the week that burst out suddenly. Like, well-

-like something from your book.

[He 'won' the Eye of Markov in the gatcha weeks ago, and she had allowed him to continue reading it. ]

But I suppose she would not be able to fake or hide the kind of evidence that would create.