"Hey," he answered with a friendly flutter of his eyelashes. "You new here?"

He didn't talk to everyone on the island, but he'd been around a while and he didn't recognize this guy. And, for just a bit, whatever the hell Atia was doing was not his problem. He was going to go on about his own business and have a very pleasant, uneventful time.

His own collar was a little tight, but he had some time.