[ Hal has a bizarre moment of wanting to feel at home with the accent and then ...fails; it's happened before. They may speak the same way, but he certainly didn't learn this one naturally, and it doesn't matter where he's from so much as what he is.

Still, he does know how to navigate one of his own countrymen better than he does, say, the plethora of unbelievably confusing and foreign entities who have the gall to keep strolling by his face. Blatantly! ]

Adapt, one supposes. Must be a useful fellow to have around. [ A beat of silence. ] You're sure there's nothing he might have missed? I'm quite thorough myself.