TAGON: Ambassador, how long are your batteries good for? This is a big space to keep lit.
HIOEFUA: Batteries are not being used. The provision of power is coming from our vessel's coupling with the station.
TAGON: You're coupling with the enemy?
HIOEFUA: Apologies. "Coupling" is confusion-making with innuendo, yes? Neither offending nor denigrating reproduction was—
TAGON: *interrupting* It's not that, Ambassador.
TAGON: Although, "in bed with the enemy" is an expression that fits here.
Excuse me. I need to check "under my pillow" to see if I still have a "knife."