"Should I assume that to be not well at all, then?" A slight smirk teases the corner of his mouth as he makes a flippant gesture toward one of the chairs around the table. "It is a public house, after all. The seating is as free as everything else, I'd wager."

That was a simpler and less pathetic way, of course, of saying 'yes please, join me and alleviate some of this tension that is threatening to choke me'. "That is quite a name. May I simply call you 'Altair'?"