Ah! Are you a knight, then? Oh - [ dimitri pauses, frowns as he corrects himself - ] - perhaps the more modern 'soldier' is the term needed.

And auditing is a thankless job, but one that is necessary - no Kingdom can function without its scrupulous accounting of its records - you must be quite the patient man.

[ that is to say, dimitri understands the busywork of such things, and he sympathizes with mcgillis very much. ]