Look at us, crossing things off lists that we didn't even intend to indulge. I think I'm making you a soldier and you're making me a commissioner attaché. I guess we can teach one another new tricks after all.

( Maybe he can treat this place as a holiday away from the Fatui - except that he has to keep his eyes open and his ears sharp. If something happens that he needs to report back to his superiors, he needs to remember it, but he doubts Thoma has anything of interest to the Harbingers. He can just talk to him man to man. )