Krem nodded, quiet. Dorian had been well enough but, in the small hours of delivering the weapons home to his apartment, before he'd gone to Thomas, Krem had worried about him. He often worried about Dorian, after a brotherly fashion.

"Some were very good," he said, in a conversational way of things. "Some were there because they like the club and it's a good recreation. Others...it's been a trying time, since the last one. People have lost. And, with Kirin..."

He didn't need to tell Biffy, though. He knew. So, instead, Krem said, "That's why I pulled it together, now."