fringe, if he was flapping his lips at this point, then I would be worried, because something wouldn't be right.
The actions of Megas and his silence should reinforce his professionalism to those that doubt it, IMO.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
Dwight D. Eisenhower