Given it's been a while since I last saw you and I assumed you'd been taken home already, no, I haven't. It didn't seem prudent to bring up a thing tha may not be relevant. I'll put it on the to do list, but remember, my word isn't law back home. Jean's one of our people's leaders.

[She was on the Council and he would defer to her.]

But you are still my friend, no matter the results.

[And with that he went to the edge of the bed and looked at the drawer.]

So, should I assume an invasion of my privacy?