Pyre looks worried for a second, before bursting out laughing. Jaeger's joke was just that funny, it seems.

"I'm going to remember that one," he promises. "Warm-up. That's brilliant, I'm using it."

He seems to satisfy himself as to the condition of his hands and stops fussing over his fingers. "Smoke and mirrors," he says with a shrug. "Emphasis on smoke."

It seems the openness of a moment ago is gone.