There are some sentiments they don't need to express aloud anymore, not with one another; just that single word and she has the assurance she needs that this is what they both want in consenting to make it a more permanent arrangement. Beyond the bureaucracy aspect, of needing to remember a renewal date every three months, it's another form of assurance that she's content where she is — and quite frankly, the thought of contracting with another has never even crossed her mind since they began, even if they've had the occasional moment of conflict. That, she thinks, has had little to do with the contract itself and more to do with the intricacies of their connection.

But it's a thought that can be abandoned, or at least set aside for the time being, when the conversation shifts to another topic — not that she's certain she could have room in her mind for holding anything else once he reveals what he does to her.

"Both of them?" she murmurs, gaze shifting from Grayson's face to roam to a more distant point; she's thinking back, now, on all the times her path has crossed with Steven's, or more recently Marc's, and some of it is beginning to crystallize more distinctly in her memory. "Does that mean that one is still always... present in that consciousness, even if the other might be in control of the body itself?" In other words, had Steven been aware of what had happened between her and Marc in the fog? She'd had no impression of it at the time, but that's because she hadn't known what to look for, specifically.