Sure she wasn't thinking of his drinking problems. Faolan doesn't really believe that for a second, but he runs with it anyway.

He wonders whether she knows who he is. Whether she's one of the guests that's on the inside of the underground community or not. There's not really any way to just ask and find out though, not without risking sounding like a lunatic. So he tries the safer route instead.

"You...know Lancelot?" he asks. (Safer, that doesn't mean less awkward.)