"Hard for her to be with an ace?" He looked at Gabe curiously. "You mean, before today? I can see where what's happened today - here and there" - he gestured expansively - "would make it hard, yeah."
Before that, though, he didn't understand. It wasn't as though Gabe were a joker.
"So ... we should look Katherine Athena up, see if she's what she says she is, maybe talk to her about it, make a decision from that. Or just make a decision." The light in his eyes suggested what his decision was.