Thinking that the current situation didn't leave her much room to contemplate, Eli let Venus take over to deal with Wes.
"I'll give you five seconds to call off any bluff. If the antidote did not work on him, or if it just made things worse, I won't let you get away unscathed," the Empress taunted, which only made him blink at her in flummox.
"You're... not her, are you?" he asked as a glimpse of enlightenment eventually dawned on his face, eyes as wide as an owl's.
"I thought we're not going to tell anything about each other?"
"Well... Truce."
