[While underlining a value in her notes: ] Property ownership, or crossbows?

[is an absent question that she resolves for herself in the following beat, glancing across the array of paperwork as if seeing them for the—well, she has spent far too much time with them to imagine it is for the first time, but in a new light perhaps?]

You know, I have no idea. I never managed a house there. Is it very difficult in— [uh oh; a long pause follows. Has she asked where he came from? Earth, apparently, but with any more specificity than that?]