"I've got a lab/workshop here, yeah. I share it with Sarah Sully," he said, balancing his empty bottle on a fingertip as he spoke. "A lot of my machines arrived here just after I did. I can show you if you want, but you wouldn't need to put your item-passing skills to use if you didn't want to."
He frowned then, and looked round at his friend. "Have you met Lyla? I can't remember."