"If Numbers thinks he has any better claim over you than I do just because this place dropped you in his house first, he's got another thing coming," he comments dryly. "And Book Club was the most recent group meeting we had, trying to get us all on the same page with anything we discover here. The last one was back near the start of April, Numbers ran it."

Though the reference to just 'that' makes him pause. "D'you mean sign language, John?"