The look of glee on her face is probably telling of what a bad decision that was, and only moments after he grabs her hand it starts to heat up.

"Elias is really something else, isn't he? An acolyte of ceaseless watching, of knowing and yet he chooses to keep his little servants all in the dark." As she speaks the heat quickly goes from moderate to unbearable, and it is most certainly beginning to make Martin's skin blister. "Do you have one of your little recorders with you? I wonder if your scream will be as lovely as the Archivist's was. Oh, I would very much love to have a record for him."