That's it, just keep the Shiny face on. Wasn't like it was particularly hard at the moment, his head was still throbbing and it was difficult to concentrate. The officers had knocked him out cold, and he'd smacked his head on the floor too, not that he could remember it. There was still dried blood in his hair, in any case.

Which was part of why it took him a long minute to blink his way through all that sideways talk. Didn't help that he was hearing an unfamiliar language overlaid by the translator bracelet. Things had just gone in a direction he hadn't expected, and now he was playing catch-up. Was this person saying they wanted to help?

He slowly put the cloak back down. "Well I've only just got here, sir, so I don't think I've got any resources. None that I've been made acquainted with, anyway."