Ava scrunched her nose as she considered his words very carefully, trying to check them for holes. But it was simple enough to believe, and in her position she really didn't have much of a choice. "He does have an annoying tendency to be overly friendly," she admitted, because fine, it wasn't like Richie wasn't allowed other friends. Other assassin friends, even. Clearly he was more stupid than she first thought.
She stepped back very lightly on the toe of John's shoe with her heel, a show of what her next move would have been, in a surrender that she didn't want to vocalize. She hated being caught, but at least he'd been... merciful? She wasn't used to that, and it was almost enough to feel bad for attacking him in the first place. "Not a lot get to," she hummed, wondering how long SHIELD would have dragged her along for if they hadn't been shut down. "Usually retirement means getting put down."