"What is it about me that I always end up cheek to jowl with the heroes?" He rolled his eyes slightly but John was also listening carefully to anything she said. The nice thing about knowing the heroes is they felt somewhat compelled to help out if things went tits up even if they didn't like him. Nothing seemed to be heading that way right now but he liked to have his allies on a string if he could.
"Too bad another mate of mine's not here. You an he'd probably have loads to talk about." Swampy was one of those made for protection sorts, he'd probably like Leeloo.
Tefe on the other hand would just tell her all sorts of bad things about him so he was kind of glad she was stuck wherever she was that wasn't here.