[He's satisfied by that response, at least to the extent that he's sure Nate's aware of what he should do, even if he's not ready to do it yet. And that's okay. There's no rushing these sorts of things.

So Lance allows the subject to change naturally now, although he does have a parting quip for the question--]

I feel like I shouldn't be encouraging drinking as a distraction, but yes.

[He doesn't even pretend he's not a hypocrite about this. He glances at the name of the bar.]

Oh, this is the bar the Displaced like to go to, right? A few people at the safehouse told me about it.