I guess so. We can see if you can go further afield later on. See if it's a... distance thing or a- a here thing.

[Which he's starting to realise is more and more likely. He takes her hand to stand up, but something awful crosses his features as she says that. Like she inadvertently stepped on a nerve, which is of course exactly what she has done. That, coupled with his already growing concerns over the slippers doth not a happy Varian make. ]

...Yeah. Guess I am.