[ He doesn't immediately respond, pushing his glasses up. There's no easy way to say this, especially after everything they've been through. After a moment, he sighs before getting into it: ]

Like I said before, I met up with Ludger and the rest of his group in Marksburg, after they managed to get out of Spirius. [ beat ] Not long after that, Bisley entered Canaan with the Key.

[ There's not a lot of inflection in his tone, but even if he knows that Rideaux knows already, it's pretty clear that he didn't mean that Elle was the way to get there. ]