Jon returns the nod, rather appreciating that she doesn't try to touch him. He'd shake her hand, of course, but he's also not disappointed to not have to.

"The Mighty Nine?" he echoes, and he absently tries to count the people that seem to know each other. He gives up sooner than later: there's too many, and he has no idea what their ties to each other are.

"I think I've only met Mollymauk," he says after a moment. "Oh--does Essek live here?"

Jon's pretty sure he saw him earlier. That would be two.