How much friendship he has - that is a good question, isn't it? Not in so many words, nor clearly expressed at the moment, but Hange wonders the same thing.

This anecdote produces a burst of rapid, reproving tongue-clickings from Hange, not directed towards Jedao but towards this absent handler. Of course it's ethically wrong, but what strikes Hange most is not the ethical horror of it all but the sheer inpragmatism of such an action. Was this person trying to make Jedao hate them?

"What were you doing at home?"

To be so feared. To be so kept.