I'm a Kendry, [ Rhys scoffs, motioning his drinking pointedly at Jack in a brief gesture, ] that's like...that was my allowance back in school. Besides. That first time I didn't even ask for a bodyguard. [ Implying that he is now ] You just showed up.

[ So...yeah. There's a point in there somewhere, but he isn't going to bother trying to figure out what it is as he nurses a sip from his drink and sets it back down. It's the sort that's too expensive to down quickly. That would be like, a crime or something. It deserves to be savoured and appreciated like the perfect numb-your-brains-out Hokk it is.

It's probably the only reason he isn't stone drunk actually. ]

You show up a lot, [ he remarks offhandedly, now that he thinks about it. First in the alley, then Giovanni's personnel file...now here. ]