"So long as there's no reason to connect the person you're talking to with certain things, there's nothing about you that's compromised. But the answer is nowhere near as simple as yes or no. And explaining why would connect you to those things, on the phone."

He sounded tired, for a moment.

"You don't want to get caught up in what will follow if I answer truthfully here. But I guess it's closer to 'yes' than 'no.'" Beat. "Just not the kind of 'yes' in which people might open fire at me at a random moment."

Unless he slipped. Where they could catch him.