As distantly mortifying as suddenly complaining what actually wasn't that much but feels like that much is to a guy who rarely actually talks about things that are bothering him until he literally can't handle them anymore, it's also oddly nice to be talking to someone who is actually listening to him do it. Not that he doesn't talk to Juliett, or that she ignores him, or that he couldn't talk to any number of other people, but. His position as leader does tend to have him try to keep that sort of shit to himself, and anyway like he said, he hasn't actually been able to figure out why it's happening, so why would he bother anyone else until he has an idea they can help act on?
Anyway it's his turn to listen to her now, and he pays her proper mind like she did him. This whole conversation is gearing up to some kind of point, he can tell, and he's already not entirely sure he's going to like it that much but he's at least trying to reserve judgement until they actually reach it. He does take the offered cigarette with a muttered thanks, because he left his in his office and he'd actually quite like one right about now.
He narrows his eyes a little bit when she brings up the mental manipulation River showed him the other day, although it's not directed at her, it's just in general. In terms of things that have been making him cool gradually towards Bifrons on the whole, that by itself knocked off a couple of degrees. "I've been recently made aware, yes." He's been actually trying to find the time to quietly investigate that further, at least theoretically. On one hand, he's not sure he wants to know how deep that particular rabbit hole dives, and on the other... Well. It's just not the sort of thing that anyone can leave alone, is it?
Anyway, it's clear he didn't quite appreciate it, or doesn't, however one wants to tense that, but it's also becoming clearer where she might be going with this, at least in the general direction. Victor's been somewhat aggressively anti-Bifrons since she was brought in from retirement even not more than a week or so ago, and what she's saying now isn't particularly any more so than anything else. He doesn't know precisely what it is, but.
"Why did you come back then, become a callsign if you disapprove so strenuously? I'm not getting the sense that you're hoping for a gentle change-them-from-the-inside approach."
yeahhhh nahh
Anyway it's his turn to listen to her now, and he pays her proper mind like she did him. This whole conversation is gearing up to some kind of point, he can tell, and he's already not entirely sure he's going to like it that much but he's at least trying to reserve judgement until they actually reach it. He does take the offered cigarette with a muttered thanks, because he left his in his office and he'd actually quite like one right about now.
He narrows his eyes a little bit when she brings up the mental manipulation River showed him the other day, although it's not directed at her, it's just in general. In terms of things that have been making him cool gradually towards Bifrons on the whole, that by itself knocked off a couple of degrees. "I've been recently made aware, yes." He's been actually trying to find the time to quietly investigate that further, at least theoretically. On one hand, he's not sure he wants to know how deep that particular rabbit hole dives, and on the other... Well. It's just not the sort of thing that anyone can leave alone, is it?
Anyway, it's clear he didn't quite appreciate it, or doesn't, however one wants to tense that, but it's also becoming clearer where she might be going with this, at least in the general direction. Victor's been somewhat aggressively anti-Bifrons since she was brought in from retirement even not more than a week or so ago, and what she's saying now isn't particularly any more so than anything else. He doesn't know precisely what it is, but.
"Why did you come back then, become a callsign if you disapprove so strenuously? I'm not getting the sense that you're hoping for a gentle change-them-from-the-inside approach."