"Traveling through time and space can leave chronotons attached to your body. It's not harmful while you're alive because you're always moving even when sedentary. But when you die... Those particles has a chance to leave and we've had too many rips in dimensions. I'm sure you've experienced something annoyingly similar." He didn't feel the need to sugarcoat any of that. Nor did he feel the need to downplay the reason for the high salary. Cost of living, to Jack, was important. He wanted to give his employees enough money that they could do what they liked...but not enough to get them to quit.

Making them millionaires tended to do that unless he was able to spread it out.

Jack slid across a new leather wrist strap across the table once he told Henry the truth about the small issue with a likely premature death and the other man signed the line.

"Welcome to Torchwood."