[He gets a nod in return, because if he doesn't want to discuss it, she's certainly not going to try to make him.

Change the subject, then. To what? She has no idea what's safe. Ari had always found it easiest to talk to Klaus over drinks, and while she has no intention of joining the ship's little temperance movement, she won't do anything to make things harder for him, put temptation in his way.]

Sure. The last poetry club meeting was good fun. I managed to convince Oda to go, and that wasn't a certainty at the time. [When in doubt, talk about Nobunaga?] I think it was good for him. He's going to teach me to use knives, too.