Things had run late at the Ministry, after dinner with Bill and Callum earlier in the week Charlie was more sure than ever that he was going to be leaving the Ministry as soon as he could get away with it - which meant closing any thing he'd started working on and fending off other issues that came his way, giving them to others in the department. And occasionally that meant staying later than planned to make sure he could get as much done in a day as possible. Which was why it was later than he'd meant for it to be when he finally got back to the reserve.
He thought about changing into something a little less stuffy before heading over to Callum's tent, but in the end decided that if they were going to do all of this, he might as well make sure he looked like this was important to him. After all he all ready knew how well he was at actual communication, might as well make sure he had as many things working in his favor as possible.
Chuckling when Callum teased him about starting without him. "I wouldn't have blamed you, time got away from me toward the end of the day." He admitted. "How are things around here?" Charlie asked, which of course covered the dragons and the other keepers, but also Callum and Baron more specifically.