[ Alright, clearly he wasn't being unapproachable enough. He looks up from the blinking messages on his communicator— codes written in binary, all of them not particularly well-intentioned— and then sets the thing aside altogether. It wouldn't do to be rude. ]

Did you? I was trying to be discreet. [ Hm. Rephrase: ] Hard to find.

[ He thinks she means that she saw him, as in, trying to hide from the conversation; he smiles at her, faint and slightly warm, so as not to look suspect. ]

I'll stay quiet. Don't let me distract you from your work.