A noticeable thing about Iris is that she, too, is paying extremely close attention. Edward's face makes it tricky to read expressions, but on the other hand his condition gives him a stripped-down effect that makes posture and muscle shifts much clearer. She likes that, as she likes the open friendliness in his body language and the flash of amused recursion when their eyes meet: watching you watching me watching ad infinitum.

Her own body language is reminiscent of a friendly Golden Retriever, as if she might at any moment either climb into someone's lap or take off after a ball; though for the moment she keeps her hands busy with her drink.

"That's sort of baked into the design, actually. I mean, the unclarity. It's sort of the point of this place that we 'ave to work out for ourselves exactly who we are and where we stand. It's a lot of why it attracts the people it does: they're either the ones that really need to learn that urgently or the ones that know it in their bones. You look like option two to me."