He shrugs. "Even if it's not true, an absence from my world can only do me good. There are people there I should stay away from." And people he wouldn't mind seeing more of, but he won't talk about that for now. Friends? In his life? Again with the awkward. "You were asking what was so interesting. Well, I took a job assisting a foreign politician..." Euphemisms: not just for the bedroom. "Let us say I underperformed and made friends with his enemies instead. They had adventures. We had adventures."