Faolan shifts awkwardly in his seat, not really wanting to explain this to the other man, but figuring he owes it to him. Especially after all this, just for him. Food and presents and cake and feeling so welcome here. He prods at the slice of cake again. He intends to finish it, really he does. He just needs to get through this first. He just hopes that he'll still have an appetite afterwards.

"Well," he says. "Kenzi... I told you that she gave me a pretty good reason to back out, as far as the job itself was concerned, yeah?" He'd called the other man once he'd finished with Njoki, after all. Telling him the barest of details at the time before barely making it back to his flat and crashing into bed. He keeps his eyes firmly locked on the plate in front of him as he continues. "Kenzi got it into her head that she needed me to accompany her into a vampire nest. Unannounced."