Rhodes had not been calling for anyone else, and he does even scoot over in a respectful distance to allow to sit, if he wants to. He does not acknowledge the compliment. It's not his space, after all. "It is. Too much exposure to high-volume sounds can be murder on your eardrums, you know." But of course Lou did know, and just saying facts at him was not the cheery diversion it sometimes was to others, so Rhodes drops that a little, and shrugs out at the mass of writing people just past their weird border instead. "Did you come here under duress or for fun?"