Eshal can see the girl's upset, and wonders at how to soothe her. She needs to be calm as she ever is, for this to keep going.

So she nods, and moves the paper away. She'll get more on that later.

(What's eating at Laura? Guilt. How do you clear guilt? You tack out a world beyond it.)

"What do you want to do," Eshal says, "when this is over and your name is cleared? I was thinking of assigning you missions with Matthias. He's been very helpful in all this-" a chuckle in her voice, "even if he didn't know it at the time."