"You've heard of them." It could have easily been a playful quip, but it wasn't -- instead, she sounded uncertain, worried that she'd said the wrong thing entirely and wondering if she'd somehow just managed to set off some horrible chain reaction without even trying. The mere mention of their names seemed to spark something in him. Should she really have been all that surprised? They had a lot of enemies, sure, but--

It made her wonder exactly who he was.

"How do you know them?"