Blackbird sighed, he was long way from home. He thought: Truth was selfish, truth got Arc to spend a night in jail. Had they lied to Arc, she wouldn't have spent that night. That was a truth that just led to more convoluted lies, had Marco just stolen the mage without telling anyone things would have been simpler, perhaps Sam/Shilla whomever that was was not so bad. In that case, truth could get them killed - people that take lives would not spare lives to get their prize. Had they suspected that his friends 'knew' these days might have been completely different.
You cannot trust someone like Marco, like Sam - and you cannot trust someone like Yelena, or Arc for that matter. Maybe it is impossible to trust other people in that line of work, perhaps once you step into the shadows emotions become liability.... No I do not accept it - they only become a liability if you let them control your actions. Some things need to be worked from the brain, not from the heart.
He looked at Yelena with pain in his eyes, perhaps there was no point in explaining she has her version and do not see things from other perspective. She does not see how easy it is to make her disappear especially with her new habits. How many possible hooks and leverages someone can have over her. No, Marco could not trust her, he loved her but could not do that leap of faith. Perhaps that was why he did it. Blackbird felt like someone that has gotten the bill and hangover for a night of drinking that he was not invited to. He knew that him and Marco were the same person, he was not delusional. That drastic move has just changed him so quickly and so drastically that Blackbird found it difficult to identify with Marco.
He sat on the bed and tried to clean his mind before speaking to Jed, one thing he did not want to is that thoughts starts spilling out.
