So he's a villain and he's wrong. [Prior dips his chin, a little nod, like he's checking those points off a list.] I know those are the people whose opinions I listen to.

[Stepping back, he hops up onto the edge of the table, kicking his feet lightly through the misty form of Kolya, who vanishes with the evidence of his insubstantiality.]

Me? Oh, who knows. Maybe there's a part of me that thought you shouldn't be alone, too. And I've been waiting for that.

[He gestures to a door where a door wasn't a moment ago. This one looks like a bathroom door, complete with the stick figure of the gender intended to use it.]