[It doesn't work. He gives another returning little tap with his shoe as he listens, and his eyebrows do lift just a fraction.]

An overseer for a grand war?

[Not just any war, but a 'grand' war. Heizou has already picked up on his companion's tendency to use particular vocabulary, but it sounds like a very deliberate choice here.]

That seems somewhat outside of the bounds of the kind of work that I'm accustomed to consultants undertaking.