He nodded, pleased, when Salem agreed to help with the Ley lines project.
"Well as I said, it`s all still in the air, but glad to see you`re on board."
He gave a surprised shrug when he said he wasn`t good enough yet to directly read thoughts with any degree of accuracy. Ohwell. I mean I expected more, but, all the better for me and my secrets, I guess. While they`re still mine, I guess he thought, flightily.
"Ohwell. But spying comes in handy too. Getting a tactical advantage. I`m down for that."
he said with a sly smile, before becoming pensive at Salem`s mentioning of his Awakening, anwering his question but with the predictable counter-question in turn. The similarities between their awakenings also struck him.
"Fascinating."
he said, his mouth slightly agape, as Salem explained his Awakening. After a beat, he answered.
"In some ways, my own Awakening was similar. But then also not. Also didn`t need to do much cutting out, either. For me it also started with studying for college. But, it led to me thinking about all the failures of my life up to that point. And then I had a weird dream about a tsunami hitting the beach at Santa Monica when I went there as a kid and an out-of-body experience, several, in fact. Arcadia is... hard to describe actually. I`d best describe it as, it is and it was and it never was. All at the same time. And it`s strange and wonderous, some call it otherwordly. I suppose that`s how I experience it at least. And as for how I got in the Free Council and the Trust? Short answer, got noticed at work after I dropped out and got a job. I`ll admit I was a bit naughty and used my Arcana for workplace benefit until I joined the Free Council. Nothing happened though. And now I still work in a similar job to back then, only for the Trust."
And that was all Salem was going to get on that. He found it so boring to talk about his own stuff, or at least, when he found it boring to talk about. He even briefly considered not responding, just because he could. But he decided to be civil and answer his fellow Libertine in kind.