"That sounds...." He meant to say hard but knew Ava wouldn't have appreciated hearing such an utter lie and platitude. So he thought for a moment. "....It sounds like something I can't judge you for. You did what you needed to do." Just as Dex had in order to get revenge on the man who had ruined his life, something that Ava knew well enough when she'd been in his mindscape. Trying to keep herself alive was something he couldn't thing badly of Ava for, not when her very life was on the line.

"Hey, did Thirteen hand anything to you before you left?" She'd given Dex something, but in his hurry to go afte Ava, he hadn't even bothered to look down and see what it was. He was surprised to see it was his old deck of playing cards from home in his hand now. He knew it was the exact deck he'd kept in his safe and not any others by how worn the outside cover was and in the way he remembered it being.