Claire smiled up at him as he made his way to her table. "Biology report," she said, making a face at the books. "The current war? You mean in Iraq?" An interesting thing to be looking up, especially when many people seemed to be looking up how they had arrived here.
"Have you been here long?" she asked, before remembering it might be polite to offer him a seat. She moved the books out of the way, before pulling a chair out for him and grinning.