Gus's lips twitched, although what emotion had caused it was unclear. "But which of us are you protecting from the other?" And how? he wondered. The greeter who'd caught him in the parking lot, the blonde woman, she had told him things... some truly fantastic things, in the most original sense of the word. People with abilities unlike anything seen in Albuquerque, even after the Salamanca brothers had come through.

Did Jesse have something new up his sleeve? Did Walter?

Would he?

He sighed wearily, passing a hand over his face. "I cannot afford another war," he admitted. A convenient truth. For now. "Not when there are so many more pressing issues. To rebuild one's entire life from scratch, without even one's family for comfort..."