"Passing acquaintance. She cooks spicy food." He doesn't mention that she works at the Vault, even though his paranoia that someone could Barge in is dying down. "Though I think my last girlfriend would have liked you. She was attractively assertive."

He will make favorable comments about Beka until the end of time, he supposes. She may have left, but it made her no less exceptional. And now that he thinks about it. "Perhaps I should actually rest." Before he babbles more pain-filled nonsense.