He sent a pleasantly surprised affirmative back to her, but did ask that she choose when herself, so she would be comfortable. He slid the requested slice of cake over to Bella, with a glass of cold milk to help wash it down, before resuming the small talk, simply noting which sister had a tendency to stray to certain topics, Violet, of course, immediately shrinking into the background. After a half hour or so, he stood, and bowed to them, excusing himself, before heading back to the main room to see if Serena and Nadriina had anything they wanted to say about their samples. He then invited those two, along with Avi, Kamariel, Vorela, and Katrina to come with him to view the first field testing of the two of his Shadow Stalker units. Nadriina's question about the difference between a Shadow Stalker and a Defender was easily answered by him pointing out that the term Defender didn't represent what the constructs actually did.