He's good at noticing when he's being watched. Partly it's paying attention to his peripheral vision, partly it's just a sense. Partly it's the fact that in Argosy Special Operations, anyone who doesn't know when somebody's paying them more attention than they should winds up dead.

So even though he's reading vaguely on the PADD, he notices when a woman stops, just outside where his bed is kind of partitioned off.

It's a busy day, it's probably not much use trying to read anything anyway when the medical scans are going on.

The woman looks over at him with a cool sort of interest.

"Pretty much," he says, setting the PADD down, but he smiles at her, because that's just polite, and because her company's welcome, as annoyed as this whole stupid situation has made him. "But I think they'd notice if I tried to break out."