"You wouldn't have gotten choked if you'd given me a second's warning before putting hands on me," says Arche, with a vaguely amused look.
"As for why would I help? Because I want to. It's not complicated. Should I seek to thwart you just because we argued once? Near as I can tell you seem a suspicious, nasty little asshole, but if I condemned everyone I knew with an awful personality I'd have to kill half my staff and also myself."
The blunt words are accompanied by a bone-dry stare; apparently the subtle approach just isn't going to work out here. Ah well, he's more used to the Sith way than all these social niceties anyhow.
"If what you are really asking is what I think I'm going to get out of it, the answer is I don't. Perhaps we'll collectively run across something that helps make this little group safer or get us home faster, but it's just as likely you'd somehow manage to keep that bit all to yourself. As I said to you once before. My objective is for all of us to get out of here, with life and limb intact, including you. That is all that I want. Whatever you think you need to keep from the rest of the group with all your skulking about, if you're not planning to murder us all or strand us on this world then you're wasting your time with me. So far, you remain the enemy of my enemy who has not betrayed me just yet--"
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"As for why would I help? Because I want to. It's not complicated. Should I seek to thwart you just because we argued once? Near as I can tell you seem a suspicious, nasty little asshole, but if I condemned everyone I knew with an awful personality I'd have to kill half my staff and also myself."
The blunt words are accompanied by a bone-dry stare; apparently the subtle approach just isn't going to work out here. Ah well, he's more used to the Sith way than all these social niceties anyhow.
"If what you are really asking is what I think I'm going to get out of it, the answer is I don't. Perhaps we'll collectively run across something that helps make this little group safer or get us home faster, but it's just as likely you'd somehow manage to keep that bit all to yourself. As I said to you once before. My objective is for all of us to get out of here, with life and limb intact, including you. That is all that I want. Whatever you think you need to keep from the rest of the group with all your skulking about, if you're not planning to murder us all or strand us on this world then you're wasting your time with me. So far, you remain the enemy of my enemy who has not betrayed me just yet--"
He gave a careless little shrug.
"Good enough."