"You're looking a little blue over there, Syrlya," comes that ever so uncharacteristic joke from a man with a gravelly voice.

That, of course, being Childermass, who's ended up in the same bath area but has just been minding his own business up until... well, right now (aka, he'd been dozing; the collection of drink glasses balanced on the edge of the baths, yet to be swept away by some attendant, likely explains why he'd be dozing in the first place).

"Or is that some other color? It's a bit hard to tell through the steam, to be honest."