"Doctor Lecter, hey," Sparkle said, giving him a little smile right back before stepping inside. "I hope this isn't a bad time? I guess I could have, like, called in advance or something, but when the island is this small it can't hurt to just stop by and see, and I haven't been doing that nearly often enough, you know?"

With basically everyone. He'd sort of gone into hermit mode outside of the Demon Marcus ever since getting back from Toronto, and it was probably time for that to change.