For his part, Dick is genuinely intrigued what traumatising things Venom might do - he can make a couple of educated guesses, admittedly, but he wonders if there's anything else that he doesn't know about.

But he knows what's expected of him right now so instead of letting his curiosity run wild he focuses on the matter at hand and nods.

"Okay," it's a small price to pay for getting to do it at all.