"The one which leads to the ship? Ah, yes, that's closed." He's making a judicious choice not to detail what's left. Adia needn't know. He'll just sip that much-needed tea, not minding how hot it is. Small perks of being an alteration mage.

It's a move that happens to hide his pause just afterward. He stares into the steaming tea for a second. Adia knows the man? Jim knows him? Does everyone but he, the tribune supposedly watching over this place, know about Jim Kirk's doppelganger?

Ah, well. Nothing to do but admit it and pretend you don't care at all, Stratos.

"Aside from a visit at Halloween, I haven't been in the Nexus recently," he says, expression deliberately composed. "Felix is usually the one who notices new arrivals - and I assume this other captain hasn't spoken to any of my subordinates, since they would certainly have mentioned him to me."

And there's Nekomata, of course. But the tribune's scarcity aside, she's been busy watching over his brother... and, of course, Adia.