She smiled at that. "I could almost believe you when you say that, if I weren't so jaded these days." She would have kept Mariko away from that room, if she'd been able to. She would have kept Mariko away from Gabriel, and Michaela, and him, but she hadn't been able to do that, either. But this human seemed determined, and she certainly had more knowledge of her world than Lux did, after eons in prison.