The missing fingers are noted, though Kit doesn't comment on them. It doesn't stop him from grasping Miles' hand and giving it a firm, friendly shake; he carries himself like someone who has done some time at the school of hard knocks himself. "Queens?" he repeats, speaking around his cigarette, and looking all the more bemused for it. "That's smart, keeping all your monarchs in one place like that where you won't lose them."

He's obviously joking. (Or is he.)