[Cooooool... yeah, he totally gets it. Emil definitely knows what's happening here, for sure, and he has no questions left at all. The pat on the shoulder is not really encouraging, but he's too frazzled by being super deaf to get offended about it.]

Talking about what? How I can't hear anything? There could be a mountain of angry changelings climbing over this desk right now and I wouldn't even notice!

[Surely not, but look, he's defenseless!! More than he already was. There's a beat before he looks up, just to be sure... okay. No kids.]