She'd be shocked to learn he still felt like an Outsider after all these years, or that he thinks an Outsider's opinion wouldn't be found valuable.

"...smoke and mirrors. How aptly put. It's always felt that way to me, too. Everything has seemed geared to throw us off balance, huge, sweeping gestures that sets the Deck buzzing. I know a lot of effort was wasted on how these things were done rather than why."

She's twisting her fingers, staring down at them as she turns them first one way and then the other. She knows it's a horrible habit stemming from nervousness when the focus is on her or when she's being daring and voicing opinions that will inevitably be shot down. But she's never been able to drop it completely. She's mentally chiding herself about this when she realizes he's just made a suggestion, a very surprising suggestion. Together?

"I--!" She swallows her refusal. She's promised herself not to start playing safe again just because she's lost her catalyst. "That--yes. I like the idea." Christopher she feels comfortable with. She's not so certain about the others. "Should we ask researchers from the Hearts and Spades, too? Form a Deck-wide rabble rousing committee?"