[Maya offered only a nod. Awkward didn't seem like the right phrase either, but she wasn't going to split hairs with Zer0 over a subject she hardly wanted to think about.

Instead, she cracked a devious grin that didn't qite reach her eyes, and shoved her doubts to the back of her mind.]

He told me that Jack harassed him on the way to find a traveling vault. Sounded pretty unbelievable to me. Got very upset when I insinuated as much.

[And then she had shut up in order to protect her research. You know, as you do.]