[Van ponders how to answer this for a moment. He could use his next words to discredit Luke and Asch... but that could come back to haunt him if it wasn't perfectly successful. Hmm... Half the truth would sound best, certainly.]

I had the misfortune of arriving in the middle of a rather petty dispute. [His "rather petty" dispute, but there's no need to mention that.] Though things have calmed down now; perhaps too much.