"The coffee is tempting," he jokes back easily, and not entirely without seriousness. He's been burning through his coffee stores faster than usual, and trade shortages means he hasn't had much luck stocking back up.

But he's not desperate enough to start sleeping with local nobility to fix that, probably.

Probably.

"I guess I have," he says, more seriously, on the topic of remaining above entanglements, and when he continues, it's gently. "There was somebody. Back home, and here for a little while. She's been gone longer than you've been here."

Which is another way of saying, You wouldn't recognize her name.