While Legion looked for a comfortable place, Gibbon said to him “Surely you will be available on the team channel, no? I wouldn’t let the women wait too much, they might consider it impolite. And we won’t let anything happen to your body or your drink.” Then he turned to Cookie. “That’s the spirit, amigo. But we still have time until then.” Speaking of time… He paused for a moment to send a short text to his girlfriend. >>Hey, corazón, sorry, work happened so I won’t make it for dinner. Go on without me, i’ll make up for it next time. Don’t be mad and have fun!<<
In the next half hour Gibbon brought up many topics like sports, politics, stock markets and women, and seemed to be genuinely interested in what Cookie was like (and Legion, if he returned to the world of the aware). To the others he must have looked like a carefree person. His comments showed that he knows the lower echelon of society better than the higher.
If the others tried to bring up the job, he tried to dissuade them from discussing it while the women were not there.