[ Qubit barely manages to keep from laughing at the way Carlisle immediately books it under the table, only to emerge peering over the edge like a smaller-nosed Kilroy. He does not manage to keep from grinning, however. ]

Sorry, sorry...! It's called a hologram. A three-dimensional soft-light projection. Totally harmless.

[ To demonstrate, he runs his hand through it, with no effect other than disrupting the beams such that chunks of the planet briefly disappear. ]

You all right down there?