[Why do you think he's even offering, Nate? Rule one of getting on a job as a street urchin- make yourself valuable. Everyone needs a chef, and if you take on kids, they eat less. People want you when you're useful.

He knows. He really does.]

Pssh, yeah, I know that. But listen, just keep that biz in your back pocket, alright? She comes at you, knows something she shouldn't, put us on the dial. We'll have her down before you even know she's on ya. Trust me, babe. Nothin' we can't handle.

[Taako doesn't think Nate knows enough of him in a fight to know that he always goes away from danger. So he shouldn't catch that Taako being so willing to go towards it for him is something new. Shhhh. It's fine.]