[Honestly, it's wild that this hasn't happened sooner. Still, now that the initial embarrassment has left him, Dan Heng's voice does get gentler.]

Good, and your apology is certainly accepted.

[He pauses for a moment.]

Now, we have our mission. Blade and I will be setting up a place for depositing the meteoric ore so that we can prep it for transport to his new forge. We'll inform everyone of the drop-off location once it's ready.