Gideon falls into this trade instantly, and while her wariness doesn't vanish, the relentlessly aggressive questioning stops.

"Deal. Which way?" Being on good terms with another cavalier doesn't sound like a bad idea, even if that cavalier is only going to know how to bench press books. She gestures, belated and vague, at the tombstone Palamedes had been hunched over. "Or did you need to finish... whatever you were doing?"