[Familiar, and not fond of him. It isn't hard to hazard a few guesses at why that might be. Jonathan doesn't strike him as a man with many friends.]

Can't say I've ever run into anything like him and his, what was it? The Beholding? Thought you might have some input, bad idea to go poking my nose into his business?

[The answer to that is almost definitely yes. It's more a question of how bad an idea it is.]