Bodhi jumps and looks mortified as he realizes not only was there a witness to his moment of quiet absurdity but that it was someone who looks just as military and scary as Bodhi does not. He might have a rank, technically, but only because the Empire didn't really see any use for civilians in its service.

The voice he begins to stammer in is lighter and shaking, the accent much less fancy and syrupy. "Sorry, I, uh--" He pulls off the cape and feels childish as well as stupid. "That'd be--It, uh, it's one of my very... very distant superiors uniforms. A bit of it. That, uh, that's the joke..."