Marcus laughs softly and he doesn't quite look away immediately, but he does have to avert his gaze after a moment or two, or risk Dan seeing and reading everything, even without his special talents. He doesn't want to tell Dan he would have done all this for just anyone, because that's simply not true. There are people in this city he loves, people he absolutely would have marched straight up that mountain to save, but it certainly isn't everyone. Marcus helps people, but he's also learned that sometimes helping people means keeping himself safe, too.

"Should probably get used to it," he says, his eyes creasing as he smiles and takes another bite of his breakfast.

At Dan's question, he shakes his head. "She told me a little, who she was, how we'd met. She told me Tomas and I were helping her foster father. Tomas was another priest, this one not excommunicated, although probably only because they couldn't find him to give him the papers. She knew a lot, but not how the exorcism turned out, though I'm not... well, based on some things she said, I suspect we were losing."