"Good afternoon..." That was certainly an unusual way to sit in a chair, he noticed. It was almost like folding yourself into it, rather than anything else resembling a 'normal' seated position.

"I'm doing so as well as one can in this place." The answer wasn't meant to be curt. "It would be a great deal easier to do so if I wasn't being dragged around constantly, but..."

He looked over his acquaintance again briefly. "And yourself?"