The further they got from talking about the Lestranges the more comfortable Cash ought to be, but Ford was being so earnest about this that he still didn’t feel fully comfortable. He shifted in his seat like that would settle him. Among everything else he wanted to ask about, another question had occurred to him: What’s your deal with my family? Because if Greengrass had a problem with the Lestranges, that was — not great. He knew too much about Cash. And Cash had sworn an Unbreakable Vow, so a word to the wrong person would very literally get him killed. It was certainly — almost certainly — nothing nearly so dire, but it was something, and Cash reached one hand into the pocket of his trousers to thumb at the surface of his pocketwatch.

But Ford was being earnest and Ford was apologizing, and there wasn’t any real danger here, just Cash’s fight or flight that activated when he thought too hard about his family. ”You’re alright,” he said, ”Really. Don’t worry about it.”

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