"Wait, wait," he says, shaking his head, amused. "First you say I look like the type who should have scars, and now you say I don't seem like military. Nothing wrong with any of that, but what do I come across like?"

Gregor has really only seen him in snippets of time in the recent past, and now here tonight where he's having a pretty relaxing holiday evening. It must yield one unusual set of impressions, and he's extremely curious to know what it amounts to.