Stephen arches an eyebrow at her. After so much time together, he's learned her gestures and habits, her walks and expressions, and he can tell just by the way she saunters over that she's up to something. Not that he minds. Generally speaking, when Molly gets something into her head, it works out pretty well for him.

"Hypothetically?" he echoes. "I'd say your odds would be pretty good." They don't have a real candidate as far as he's concerned — council members are frankly a little too easy to campaign for — but he's still putting in the work as diligently as he would for a candidate higher up the ladder. Still, he thinks, he could afford to take a bit of a break.