"Hi Ron," Ern replied to the greeting as he poured the last of the pot of coffee into his mug, with a helping of milk to top up the mug. He took a muffin leftover from the meeting earlier that day. "If you are referring to the passive aggression and the full-out aggression, then yeah. I'm just glad that there isn't any fieldwork or training exercises today. Just since I wouldn't feel as if I'd be covered."
"Hopefully this would boil over at some point soon though," Ern added, hopefully but not overly so. "I noticed that Lavender had made a journal entry about not knowing where Michael is--what's happening with that case?"