Oh, no need to worry about all that, Meredith. He's just a nice friendly little guy. Who would need to be concerned about that?

"I mean, it's... fine. It's not worse than anything else this place has put us through." He chuckles like it's some kind of joke-- which it's not, but it might as well be-- and takes a sip of his tea in turn. "At least this time it's for a... good cause? A less good-people-getting-hurt cause."

He gives her a little grin over his cup. "What about you? I mean, I know you haven't been resting or anything like that."