Excellent, Barty thought. That was a start. There was a way to Vera, a path. It was not necessarily an easy path, no. But as far as outsiders went, Barty had better luck tracking down Andromeda. Of course anyone else he found he would have brought in pretty quickly. And well, Barty smiled - he hoped finding her was only going to get easier. So even if she didn't want to help, perhaps she would. But he hoped she would. It wasn't like anyone wanted to do anything bad to her.
"Your older niece looks remarkably like you," Barty commented, "Do you know that?" He smiled. He wasn't in a rush particularly.