She has a point. He might be older now but he isn't useless. He just needs to know his limits. He's not going to roll over and die, God no, but being an assassin is a young person's game. Climbing rooftops, working twenty hour days, running across London with broken ribs? That's not something he does so well anymore.

"I've been here two years. Or I had been. I know that's not as long as some. It's not a vacation. It's just a change. I'm not sure it's as hard a life as what you've had. But it's not a holiday."

Not physically, not emotionally.

"But you're right. You have to adapt to it. If you don't, you'll struggle, and they will pubish you if you don't meet your quota, if you don't get your contracts, if you're a bad dominant or a disobedient submissive."