How amazing, not a single question that he can answer concisely and/or non-threateningly. Spectacular. Here is someone who thrives on an unexamined life--unexamined by himself or anyone else. Anything else is downright unsettling.

What is even more unsettling is how definitively he's thinking about the prospect of accepting some kind of affiliation in the first place. But he's no stranger to playing a long game, though perhaps susceptible to forgetting that he's playing, partway through.

At least communications won't be hard to sink his tentacles into, he'd expected much more in the way of hoops where the phone is concerned. "...I suppose that should have been obvious, really. Can you tell I'm not used to having to think in these terms?"