A slight pause as Ava takes her in--the change in her height, her skin.

Her tone.

"Thank you," she says, polite and business-as-usual.

(She does not say: See how easy that was?)

"I understand that. And I promise you I know how serious this is--hell, I'm the one who got Andrew's sentence extended past our dinky three-day maximum or whatever it is for kidnapping attempts. We're not gonna let him do this again."