"Sebastian doesn't need anyone to speak about him in the third person," he says with a wry twist of an expression before addressing Mina and speaking in earnest, "I'm so very sorry that you're separated from him by this place."

Despite his temper and his ill-ease at social events, Sebastian truly is a generally pleasant, if a bit too honest, man. He didn't mean to offend Mina over the network, he just didn't understand her methods or why she felt the need to wait what could be years to get the money to build a clinic.