Valdis snorts at his comment and picks up the badge on the bedside table, holding it carefully in her hands, not paying him much attention as he returns the notes to their place. Names and faces of people she would never see again, and really shouldn't care about quickly shoved back into the darkness.

"Just a 'friend'?" Distracted as she is, she still caught that pause and she's still half-heartedly thinking of how to get under his skin. "You're a scholar in addition to animating skeletons based on your books and that impressive map over there...Or at least you don't seem insane enough for the alternative."