[The reaction doesn't go unnoticed, and he finds it an interesting one. No way a guy like this is unused to compliments – not with the way he hands them out – so it's something else that got to him. For a moment, Adam's tempted to activate his CASIE mod, see what it has to say about a personality like Dorian's... But he's never liked the idea of using that particular aug just to satisfy his own curiosity.

He shakes his head, offering another one of those wry half-smiles.] Way this conversation is heading, I'm really starting to wonder if you've got enough of that wine.

[In lieu of said wine (and the effects of the whiskey having long since worn off, thanks Sentinel RX Health System!) it's best to head this talk off before it gets much heavier. He's not entirely sure how large the ship actually is, but they must be getting close to the housing decks. A change of subject – a segue, really.] So how about the people who are in charge here, then – what are they like?

[Because while he knows there are captains, he doesn't even have an idea of what they look like. He's always found, though, that the best way to get stock of a CO is to see what the people working beneath him say about him. Any bit of information he can have when going into actually dealing with them will be an advantage.]