Is it Tom or is it Bruce that Seoraj is curious about? There's a question. Bruce can add it to the long list of things he's paranoid about; for now, Seoraj doesn't know the disconnect, just the strange inconsistencies of manner that he wonders at.

"Didn't expect to see you here," he observes, mildly wry - in a city this size, and with a man who seemed so self-contained, he hadn't particularly expected to see Tom again at all, or at least not half so fast. "Don't tell me you're a stelanmancer."