[People measuring each other, isn't that just how things go sometimes? David lets them do that and is content to let them find their own lines. For David, it's about the importance of finding information here, not even the teasing.]

Thanks for your help, Bart. And the company. I'll brief you on what I ultimately found later. Send Kat-El my love.

[To Balthier he indicated Bart's vacated chair.]

Feel free to order something to drink while we talk.

[he wanted to see just how attention getting this outfit of Balthier's is, not to mention brief the guy on what he's after here. While some of it will have to happen on the fly, he can at least do the initial stuff.]

Good thing I wasn't thinking of an embroidered vest.