Should he? They'll see about that, but he is polite enough not to argue further. Percival finishes his drink.

"Do you have anything to clean weapons here, by any chance?"

He can practically hear the metal corroding after that trip through the ocean and he would like to get ahead of that before it gives him real problems. The quick job he'd done on the bench won't suffice to keep Animus in working order, and it probably didn't do that much for the rapier, either.

And a wild change of subject keeps him from having to meditate on Vax's ultimate feelings regarding his presence.