"It's nothing please,"  Victor sighed, taking her hand's in his briefly before moving them out of the open and to a more private area in the courtyard before the Tower.  He didn't like being very open or public in his relations with her, always worried of the possible danger it might bring her.  Especially with The Bidder involved and the information she had gotten ahold of.  He had admitted some of his suspicions to Marie about the kidnappings and missing Outliers, but he hadn't told her of the other Marshall Ethan and his connections to the exiles.