Now that Brother Maynard isn't actively scanning them, it's a little safer for them to be themselves. Slightly. A teeny bit. (They do still have guns trained at their heads, after all).

The telepathic earplugs give them a safe avenue to talk, especially with the psiblockers, as long as they're very careful in how they school their expressions and what they say out loud. The holograms help but they're still linked in to the real expressions they make.

They're trying to make us sweat, he thinks at Carolina. It's a head game.

He says it like he has quite a bit of experience with those.

Normal people roped into this would just be confused about the hold up and not sure what's going on. Guilty people, like undercover cops, would start to get nervous. Maybe panic.

A pause as he considers that he may be preaching to the choir. It wasn't like they'd gotten more than some cursory information about each other before the mission. Mostly they'd all been briefed in what they should know about their own and each other's personas, no who their partner actually was.

Uh. I mean...you might know that. I figured I'd point it out just in case you don't.