The scroll case is set aside as Marcus starts sifting through the pages. From where Cosima is perched, she can see several maps of differing quality, detail, and age. Once he sees what he has, Marcus' handling of them is more careful, pausing over each one to get a sense of what he's looking at, and then carefully placing each aside.

Cosima would be within her rights to feel ignored when he doesn't look up throughout her speaking, until he waits for he to be done and says, "Why did you take it?"

A glance up, then. "Besides necessity."