[Given the type of people he works with, he'll take that as a challenge. Or, would, if he knew that was what Malleus had in mind.

Instead, he takes the change of topic, grinning like a hyena as he gives him a two-fingered salute. Yep.]

Brand spanking new. You're my first customer, so I'll give this meeting a free pass.

[Or. Something. Instead, he changes direction there as he sees the horns.]

You don't happen to have a cousin or a sister or a grandma in Illumina, do you?