"Last time I checked, most people were supposed to be asleep when under one of those," he drawled, but now he knew for certain. It was a good thing to, and he wondered if the guy was packing any scalpels around to breakfast. That would make things messy and yet actually rather entertaining.

His expression betrayed nothing even as he picked out the code in the change of tapping. He stared at the doctor across the table from him for a long moment before his foot began to tap against the floor lazily, for all intensive purposes, just a jig of his leg with no meaning until...

H-A-I-L H-Y-D-R-A

"Well, one never knows who their friends or their enemies are sometimes," he replied, his eyes flicking briefly around the room. "I believe in causes, not people. People only let you down and disappoint you."