"And you are here," is Athos' clipped and perfunctory reply when d'Artagnan accuses him of his inebriation. It is a normal thing for him, by which d'Artagnan is surely aware of by that point. "And you've finagled a horse," he notes, with an air of both curiosity and mild disapproval, as if the boy shouldn't be allowing himself such frivolities in such a dangerously odd place.

He stands perfectly straight as he allows his attention to roam over the boy. "I don't recall you receiving your commission."