"'Supremely useful?' Clearly you don't know me at all."

He is, he's just not used to anyone else acknowledging it. The other man is a wizard and thinks he is too, well, that's interesting. River said that about him: that she hated 'good wizards because they always ended up being him.'

The Doctor offers his hand for the other man to shake.

"Felix. A battlemage. So you're a soldier?"