"Did you mean for me to find out in any way?" he counters, though he offers her a flash of a smile to show her he means no hostility. He isn't angry about the secret, how could he be? He isn't afraid, either, not when Lara has been one of the few people in this town who has gone out of her way to be kind to him. Siren or not, she's still Lara; it counts for too much for him to brush it aside.

"Okay, so you're Mother Siren. I'm glad we cleared that up. That mist, you said it might be a sort of defense but defense from what? We were searching for the spellbook so it must be there, if someone--er, something--is willing to go to such great lengths to protect that mausoleum."