"You may as well know that I was an assassin. One needs a thousand lives if one means to travel the world and eradicate the lives of others." It's revealed with a hint of nonchalance, driven by acceptance on her own part that it's no longer worth keeping secret when this place means to share them all anyway.

The question was a test, to confirm whether or not her suspicion regarding his eyesight had been correct, and yet Natalia wisely doesn't remark on it. Not yet. There's little reason to bombard Gabriel during their first encounter.

"It'll do, Poe. It'll do."