She was taken aback. There was no other way to explain it. With a mere five minutes of talking, an answer against her own words at that, this man has managed to seem to have everything click into place. Click into where it should be, the 'perfect world' that she sought internally. His words reigned perfect with what ones life should be like, their own. However. The one thing that stuck out to cause at least an internal eye-roll, is the fact that he knew this. He knew that this would have the effect it would, and he takes glee in it.
Struggling to formulate a response, her mind processing everything that he's said chunk by chunk, coming to terms with some details, and merely being pushed back away by another. However there was one thing that stood out amiss the mass of words which was spewed.
"Achillie Nadeau, by all means, call your capped friends. Bring in whatever you like, I do not harbor fear of coming to an end, if things were rigged in the favor to indeed go that way. More-so, I am not worried in the slightest that if one was to check in depth, one would not find anything of interest at all that someone would like to act against from my very attitude."
"The very fact that you would like to learn more about me is quite normal, however upon further thought, it isn't as true to you. I have a natural curiosity in figuring out who thinks how. However that doesn't necessarily exist when I look at you. Is it because of your attitude? Is it how you think? So open, so clear, yet it truly doesn't seem open and clear. You do what you want for personal gain, and you seem to have nothing to hide. Thus you merely don't keep the interest of someone. That is, until they figure out what your mind is capable of."
"Look at this place. You have resources. And you have a personal agenda. At least to your own degree. If that is power, money, or going with the stereotypical end of the phrase, if you're after fame. It is all possible through what you have amassed in your life so far. Yet there still seems to be something off."
"From what can be gathered, you enjoy to be assured that you're above other people around you. Fair enough, I can understand some thinking like that. It's quite common, perhaps I even share a little of the curse which that encompasses. The assurance is what drives you perhaps? No.. Aspiration. Your own words. That fits this situation wonderfully, indeed. Yet aspiration for what? And to what end? Countless plagues of questions which never leave your side when you live life. Yet you don't seem to care right now. Something. Anything. The drive is actually very impressive."
"Susan McCarthy.. She's dead, my ambiguous acquaintance. A small little newspaper with those who have been deceased, her name is written on a small little line. Eventually to be forgotten. A simple way to tie up loose ends when you finish up with your work, something I am not necessarily proud of. However there isn't much I can do when it comes to matters such as that. I hide. Yes. I dodge. Yes. I give up, or even more importantly, I fail? I will become one of these corpses you playfully threaten of before that ever happens."
"I aspire great things, but there is only so much one can do. I have political power through influence of important people in various corporations. Very well. But on an open front? I am useless when it comes to the grand scheme of things. I do not have resources, I do not have a place to stay. The Commonwealth however, perhaps does change things slightly. This.. badge which you enjoy saying it as, gives restrictions, yet it also gives a strong power if those who matter, allow it. Yourself being one of them."
"Yet you do not seem to be too worried that I will lead things astray for the group that you are partially responsible for if I harbor this badge which you are offering me. I can respect that. Quite a big amount at that."
"Perhaps I should stop running around like I have. Of course not completely, there are many things to be accomplished, all within schedule, although.. This rare orginization of freedom is nothing with benefits. It doesn't come free of course, as there are others of the same nature. Robert. Yourself. Sean to a degree. Even the detested Jack Starr."
"This all boils down to one thing in my mind however. Now that my selfish words are out of my system for the time being, the thing that matters the most."
"What about the girl. I've been assured she can stay, and I'm grateful about that. Although I refuse to have her merely draw back into that horrid corner I've forced her into so far by lack of communication, and lack of exposure to external interest. If I have to leave once more for a week or another extended amount of time, what will happen with her while I am gone."