| [Oct. 20th, 2009|05:42 pm] |
"Unless talking about it was a way to put the subject at ease. But I don't think you're doing a clandestine debriefing on me, because..." Ginta looked thoughtful for a moment. "Well, because for one thing, it would be a waste of your abilities, and for another, I know there are some brilliant, squirrelly minds in Intel, but there's no way they started grooming you to be some kind of handler for me by sending you out as a genin to keep me from getting crushed by the Fox at the last minute. And even if they'd decided I needed a handler now, how would they have known I was gonna go to that crypto lecture? And psych profiles are good, but are they really good enough that someone could have scripted for you the right kind of questions to ask at that lecture to get me interested enough to ask you out for coffee after, so we could discover we already knew each other?"
He nodded, as if that proved everything satisfactorily. "Anyway, I'm not that paranoid. And if I was, I wouldn't be talking about it with the guy I suspected was evaluating me, because that would just prove I was paranoid. So if I really thought you were here as a debriefer, I'd be totally avoiding even bringing any of this up." He grinned and opened the sack of sweets.
"So that means you're here because you're actually interested in me, not because someone sent you. Besides, you brought sakura mochi, which is my second favorite. If you were here because of some kind of conspiracy, then you'd have brought yatsuhashi, because that's my best favorite mochi, and any Intel good enough to set up the kind of conspiracy we're postulating would have analyzed my buying habits for sweets and determined what the best possible bribe for me was."
He finally stopped, pleased with himself and a little out of breath. "So that makes you a real friend, not a fake one. Which is awesome. Want one of the mochi?" |
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