[Yes, he decides, there's no mystery as to why Palamedes finds Viktor good enough company to live with. This is someone who has a view of the world that aligns with his, and the comfort Paul had felt at knowing Palamedes wasn't rattling around his bunker alone is stoked further by the suitability of his housemate.]
Not many Sleepers choose to honor an alien pantheon. Like you said - people cling to what they know. [A shade flits across his expression, then, eyes averted as he runs a fingernail along the rough grain of his denim pants.] The way I see it now is as...being a honorable guest in an unfamiliar host's house. At least a few of us should try to understand them, shouldn't we?
[One less, now, but that's neither here nor there. He turns himself towards the subject of research instead, brightening as he returns his focus to Viktor:] I'm studying corruption and Beasthood. Trying to systematize the approach to reversal, as much as I can with the tools we have. I don't mean to presume, but if you are expanding your line of inventions in light of the possibilities...perhaps there's an opportunity to collaborate?
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Not many Sleepers choose to honor an alien pantheon. Like you said - people cling to what they know. [A shade flits across his expression, then, eyes averted as he runs a fingernail along the rough grain of his denim pants.] The way I see it now is as...being a honorable guest in an unfamiliar host's house. At least a few of us should try to understand them, shouldn't we?
[One less, now, but that's neither here nor there. He turns himself towards the subject of research instead, brightening as he returns his focus to Viktor:] I'm studying corruption and Beasthood. Trying to systematize the approach to reversal, as much as I can with the tools we have. I don't mean to presume, but if you are expanding your line of inventions in light of the possibilities...perhaps there's an opportunity to collaborate?