Armand listens, and does so by watching Daniel as they walk rather than playing at aloof. Back in Dubai, and the natural twinge towards anxiety is matched only by his interest in the thread being taken back up. Masochistic, maybe. He has his tendencies.

A hooded lowering of his eyes before his focus goes back to where they're going.

"I wanted to provoke you. You were being judgmental."

He pauses for the span of a step or two, and then bids, "Elaborate," because it hadn't been that simple, either. Maybe Daniel sees more of himself in this than Armand did in Daniel's work.