"Long enough to know her ins and outs. Mostly outs. She's a good ship with a good crew, don't let the look fool you. Especially the guest rooms. The Doc show you yours before you came in here?" Answering a question with a question if an obvious sign of avoidance. Unless you're a shrink. But why would a shrink be on this boat? And he wouldn't be the captain if he were, besides. So it'd just look like avoidance. That's why when maybe you don't want to talk to someone about something you can't just take the first chance to ask your way out of it as that'll just bring up more curiosity and more questions and then you have to get clever and think of questions on<em>those</em>questions and really who has that kind of time?<br/><br/>Not a ship's captain, that's for sure!<br/><br/>I had a point there. Oh, right, so you don't ask it right away. Make like you're answering the question and<em>then</em>you ask something else, real businesslike, and that tends to go a mite better. Mostly.