The small familiar around her neck moved for the first time. It made an odd chirruping noise that somehow managed to sound smug, as it lifted it's head. The rest of it was translucent, but the eyes were solid dark orbs flecked here and there with color as it shifted and moved.

"Most people seem to. You're on what they call a Starship. You'll have to get medically cleared and then they'll assign you a room."

She kept her tone crisp and professional, realizing that she was now talking to him in the way she would talk to Margot, or any of the other shysters on Elani Street. She spoke in a professional "It's not worth my job to smack you or call you an idiot but I'll be *****ed if I'm going to smile at you" sort of way. Not QUITE how she spoke to Mallory, but then... he was one of the few humans she hated even more than Margot.