[Rei slides a little closer, setting her cup down and reaching out, her palm resting on Max's shoulder.]

He did the right thing.

[And, Rei's voice hardens, her jaw tightening. There's a certain quality to her voice that isn't usually there. Anger, steel, and a special kind of zeal...]

And if someone tries to hurt Chloe when I'm near, I'll make sure the Authority doesn't have anything left to find.

[The distressing thing is she'd been just a hair's breadth away from catching Reaper before the cats got him.]