"Are you? Well, these things happen. Have you committed treason, then?" His voice is already entirely friendly, but he hurries to add "It's all right if you have, you know, I'm not here to enforce anyone's law, just to get you patched up."

Annnnd Joly's pretty well on the treason-committing side of things himself, depending on a how a person looks at it. But he's not going to say that until he knows what Auxin thinks of his own situation.