Dominic turned and smiled as Melinda approached. "Hey," he answered. "I'm good. Glad to be outside - even if it is freezing." He'd dressed for a drive in his nice, heated car - not for standing around in the open air. He hadn't even been waiting that long, but he hated to smoke in gloves and his fingers were starting to ache. "How was your Christmas? I haven't seen you to talk to since before..." With as much time as Dominic spent on Monument Alley, he saw most people at least in passing on a daily basis but didn't always have time to stop and chat.
Before Melinda could answer, their second expected guest rushed up. Dominic took one last drag of his cigarette and extinguished it with a spell - so much cleaner - before flicking it towards a nearby bin. "Hi. No, you're not late." He gestured between the two women. "This is Melinda, and I'm Dominic. Figure you should at least know my name before you trust me to drive you around!" He knew his name was on the journal, but it still felt polite to introduce himself properly. He looked between them again, his mouth pursed in thought. "I've never side-alonged two people before. One at a time or both together?" Generally he learned by experiment, so he honestly wasn't sure which was better - though they'd almost certainly told him during his apparition course - but it didn't seem like experimenting would be a good idea with this particular question.