[ A lot but not nearly enough to handle all these inter-family politics, as Rhys will be happy to inform him of after he finishes looking surprised to see a hand come out of nowhere from his point of view and effectively cut him off.

But that's probably because he hasn't been really paying attention to his escort much as he was trying to blend in, mingle with the rest and pretend he's just as pretentious and awful inside as the rest of them. To fit in, and in a weird way he thinks maybe he really doesn't have to try that hard at all.

But he is going to pout just a little when Shiro steps in, brows knitting together. ]

What? I haven't h-had that much, just...I mean I've had a few of these green...blue things now yeah, but I'm totally fine. [ He is Not Totally Fine. He has been averaging one and a half to two of these an hour for the last...several. It adds up. ]

I'm doing better than that Simms over there, I mean wow. Can you say trainwreck? He-heheh, hah.

[ he really needs to stop ]