[Okay, okay, he just gives a bit of an apologetic grin at the glare and grimace combo, wow. He raises his hand and laughs a little bit.]

Sorry, sorry, I didn't mean it in an insulting way -- [he might've just been returning fire since Hawke's been so blunt with him so far] -- but it just sounds like you don't have a lot of company that you'd really.... prefer, right? There's a difference between that and loneliness, I guess.

[Sorta.]

But you know you can always come by our place, right? Unless that'll make me one of the - what did you call it - "pathetic sods" beckoning for your company, hah!