[ Ah, work. Ephemera nods knowingly. Everyone comes to these things for a reason. It's never just to get drunk and flirt with all the pretty people, though they allow themselves that fiction to keep it all going. One of these days it's all going to implode, and then what will they do with themselves? ]

Nah, I get it. Next time.

[ He laughs a little. ]

Oh, yeah. My secret commission. I tell you about that one? It's supposed to be hush-hush. I don't know why they bother, it'll be all over Warbler the second I'm finished with it