"Okay." He smiles and gestures towards an empty chair. "Sit down."
He leaves her to go to the coffee table and returns soon, handing her a cup of black coffee and holding one of milky tea for himself as he perches in a chair beside her.
"I didn't know you back there well enough to know how you take your coffee or anything. We weren't... um... close, y'know? But you're the first familiar face I've seen here, I think, who wasn't also there with me. So hey. Why'd you come tonight? How long have you been here? Are you doin' okay and everything?"