"That would be arriving back to Paris with Rochefort riding at our side, rescued from Spain," he replies, though he is already aware that there is a dark cloud looming in his future because of that man. He has been waiting and biding his time at the Nexus as he debates what he will do about such things, unsure that he is ready yet to cope with such a villain so soon after Richelieu's death.

"Is there something you wish to tell me?"