[ he'll let that smile fade into a mere quirk of his lips. henry's no so heartless as to continue to badger poor ashley on his inevitable setting change. ]

If you insist. I'm in a similar situation, barring the war. I'll be keeping close quarters with strangers on a sort of haunted spaceship. [ "haunted" is a loose descriptive, really. it's more or less his way of say "strange, bad things happen for seemingly no reason at all" there. ] The number of drunks will be par for the course, I'm sure.