He doesn't need the help, no, but he and his ego appreciate it nonetheless. Kanaya and Steph get a matching smile from him, the kind he wears when he's doing business, as he finds a seat nearby.

"Our biggest problem, as I see it, is the fact that we're so scattered now. It was one thing when we were back in former Exsilium, but now that some of us are here and some of us are still on the moon... that's an issue. And I think those of us who are here — and I'm not ashamed to include myself in that — are still so over what happened that keeping some distance from one another, for the time being, doesn't seem like the worst thing. But it kinda is, considering our situation. So."

So there's that.