"I don't think your back up would have made much difference," he tells her, a bit more delicately. "It wasn't an issue of trust. As I said, I didn't want to involve anyone else. And why would I stop trusting you now?"

He watches her a moment and then sighs as well, though leaning forward in his seat rather than back. "But I'm not without information now. There's more to the story. More you need to know. Darkseid isn't alone."