When Tommy arrived, Lachlan stood up to greet him, but seeing how the man looked and how he quickly planted himself into one of the empty armchairs, Lachlan just shrugged, noded to Tommy in a silent greeting and sat down again. He let Mel carry the conversation for now, and picked up his terminal, quickly taping on it, to check a few things and to make sure no one is currently looking for Tommy's ship or Tommy himself, in case his current disposition was caused by an unfortunate run-in with the law.
