“Mmmm.” He’s hesitant, not wanting to risk tarnishing Garrot’s image of him any further than it might have already have been tarnished by now. Sure, Garrot had admitted to having said similar awful things, but it wasn’t nearly comparable to Luka. He had a reputation to uphold!

“You must have seen the talk online about... the hospital. And Gyre’s head. The media had a field day with that one.” He beats around outright saying: so you know how Gyre is dead, right? It felt like something too personal for Luka to be sharing brazenly, despite it being covered by every trashy tabloid out there.

“I was trying to convince him to let me finish off that monster.” Again, his phrasing is distant and othering - she’s ‘that monster’ here, not Five - cushioning the unpleasant truth. “I told him they aren’t really capable of death. Not like us.”

Luka is hoping Garrot can extrapolate the meaning from all of his indirect phrasing.