Fortunately, within the hour means just that and there is more than enough paperwork to make out or review or sign to fill whatever time might otherwise be spent drumming fingers on a tabletop. He is in fact still engaged in some stack of the stuff when Edgard arrives and hardly glances up in reply.

"Take a seat."

He gestures to one of the chairs before the desk, and looks back at the pages before him where he scratches out a few additional lines—

"I'm sending you to Orlais. You were with us at Ghislain, yes?"