[If he wanted to cheer Niko up, watching another drunk man fall down did it, and he's laughing and smiling stupidly as Boone lays back again.]

Good trick. I'd ask you do it again, but you might break something.

[Niko's hound has finally chosen to crawl out from under the bed, and he does the very doggish thing of putting his head on the thin mattress to watch them. Except he has four eyes, so when Niko looks down at him it's... confusing... when he can't focus.]

Take it easy. No hurry for me. Unless metal dog has to go out- does he have to do that?

[To be honest he would have asked that while he was sober, too.]

It'll probably wear off soon.