[When we were being held and tortured together is not an answer, she suspects, that will go over well. So, carefully:]

We live in the same city. And, ah . . . attended a few of the same functions together. She did me a great favor when I injured myself and she tended to me. Sidon, you said your name was? She's probably around here somewhere, if you'd like to look.

[Or maybe just a holographic projection of her . . .]