[ he nods, but just. grimacing. ] You don't know the half of it.

[ he might honestly have to ask her to help keep an eye out sometimes because. oh god. ]

He's a merc, just all about the payout. No job to big, no atrocity too terrible, as long as the price was right. Problem is he's -- clever, too clever. Got an entire planet eating out of the palm of his hand even as he was orchestrating them into civil war. And when his cover started wearing thin, he was working them up into a final fight big enough to have just wiped out everyone.

He didn't work alone, but that's part of why he tried to kill me when I showed up here. And that's who I have in the second fucking bedroom -- and I guess your new neighbor, when he shows back up again.

[ so a clever, charismatic and manipulative little bastard who didn't have any issues with the idea of wiping out an entire population, who also happens to be obnoxiously insufferable and incapable of shutting up. congratulations south, this is also going to be your new next door neighbor. those elevator rides are sure about to get worse. ]