"You sound uncertain about what I say. Let me pose it to you as this: the things that I know, that I am going to be teaching you, do you imagine that they have gone unemployed in my life, or do you think that perhaps I know them more intimately? Just consider, no need to answer. The query is more hypothetical than anything.
"There may be people here you know, or there may be nobody who knows your face at all outside of the friends and acquaintances that you've acquired since arriving. There are two familiar faces for me within this city."
Hannibal thought about Clarice and Will with a bit of a smile. He really did need to get the two of them into the same room.
"We can work with swords soon." He promised. "Have you been practicing your story? Arie's story?"