Foster spent a considerable amount of that conversation listening to people talk about information he didn't have. Frustrating and intriguing, impatient and exciting in equal measure, but most of his energy was spent containing himself under the pressure.

That he accomplished this it at all is significant in its own way, but the less people notice, the better.

Following LaFlamme is also done in silence; he listens to that final warning, but doesn't say anything then, either--just regards LaFlamme equivocally, still more or less managing to keep his thoughts to himself.