Hammer didn't seem to know whether he should be making excuses or accusing Li Hua, earning him an arched eyebrow and Li Hua continued commitment to the salad over whatever he had to say for himself. If he wasn't responsible for his past or future, he could hardly be expected to be taken seriously. It was a shame the girl was expected to spend any time with him, she might develop the same habits and waste her potential.
"I am establishing my proxy," Li Hua explained calmly. She had been to the library, she understood this now. They could always do things her way, though, and offered by holding up the carving knife she pulled out its sheath on the counter as though to examine and consider its use to her. "Is this correct?" she asked Typhoid regardless, in the case she got the language wrong or Typhoid wanted to make amendments of her own.