That assessing look continued to make Pike's discomfort worse, but he wasn't about to give any indication that it made him uncomfortable at all. Instead he set his jaw, and responded to the disgust that the other man had for Marcus.

"And how well do you know Marcus?"

To Chris, it made sense that Marcus would talk about him. He and Pike talked at length about his career over the years, and Marcus was one of the men that showed Pike that a planet posting wasn't the end of his career.