He gives her a Look, a how am I supposed to be the one to tell you,
but Stephen Strange also never neglects an opportunity to speak his mind and offer an opinion even if unsolicited. So he’s thinking it over, and she can practically watch those gears turning behind his eyes. Habitually secretive as he is, he can empathise with the desire not to say anything, but…
“If you were both dropped into a new world whole-sale, I wouldn’t necessarily recommend airing those skeletons. It might be possible to sweep it under the rug, then. But since we’re here, logistically—” He gestures to the stone walls, the piles of paperwork; not necessarily this exact paperwork in the Captain of the Guard’s office, but the existence of paperwork, broadly.
“There are reports. There’s a paper trail. I assume there’s people who knew you both. Even Cosima mentioned the rifter wedding to me, a year ago. Anyone in the Gallows might make an offhanded comment or innocent reference and impromptu let that cat out of the bag.” He hates this, but: “I would get ahead of it, if I were you. Before someone else does.”
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but Stephen Strange also never neglects an opportunity to speak his mind and offer an opinion even if unsolicited. So he’s thinking it over, and she can practically watch those gears turning behind his eyes. Habitually secretive as he is, he can empathise with the desire not to say anything, but…
“If you were both dropped into a new world whole-sale, I wouldn’t necessarily recommend airing those skeletons. It might be possible to sweep it under the rug, then. But since we’re here, logistically—” He gestures to the stone walls, the piles of paperwork; not necessarily this exact paperwork in the Captain of the Guard’s office, but the existence of paperwork, broadly.
“There are reports. There’s a paper trail. I assume there’s people who knew you both. Even Cosima mentioned the rifter wedding to me, a year ago. Anyone in the Gallows might make an offhanded comment or innocent reference and impromptu let that cat out of the bag.” He hates this, but: “I would get ahead of it, if I were you. Before someone else does.”