"Ah - you're awake, James," Tom offers brightly. "I brought you coffee. Well, I'm on my third, so you can have this one." Which doesn't explain why he just handed a mug to R as well, but James isn't asking.

"So this someone - would he be a Lorena citizen?" Tom asks lightly. "I might know about him. Or them. I'm a friend of Yvette Moore."