_{[Balfour frowns when Reid says that it sounded foreign, the name of his country. Perhaps it was foreign to him, but to Balfour, it was home.]}

Your friends often feature in your dreams?

_{[Must be close friends. When one of Balfour's colleagues featured in his dreams, it was a nightmare.]}

And yes, colleagues. I don't know them well enough to call them 'friends.'

_{[Well, most of them.]}