"The Princess gives me a filthy look when I start interrogating people I'm not meant to, reminds me of my mother," he says, managing to make it charming; his smart mouth is presumably why he's heading the legal department and not being shunted into Nuala's political pursuits. "So in the interests of keeping me in her good books, I think we can leave it there and I'll catch you in Sobek Croix this week coming?"

He could've just said 'I think that'll do for now', but that wouldn't have been as much fun, not with a sense of humour that tends towards the dryly self-skewering.