[How can he answer this? He doesn't think he was out of line for being uoset when he realized who it was, and Johnny had started it when he could have just let Astarion's lie that something wasn't wrong pass.

Though, Astarion also knows if Johnny had he probably would have said something himself eventually.]

Of course you can.

I wasn't mad when I first came in. Maybe wary but a stranger in a familiar space is worth being wary about, is it not?

[Surely everyone thinks like that, and it wasn't due to his years of knowing when he was summoned to a room in the palace and there was a stranger there something bad was going to happen, right?]

But I also don't believe I was that out of line once I realised who he was.

[A longer paused between messages this time, then:]

Was I?

I was going to try not to say anything while he was there, but...