[Private]
I assume you are the one to approach in regards to joining the Defense Team?
[There's a whole host of reasons he wants 'in'. Wanting to be privy to their resources and information, wanting to avoid clashing with them should he become embroiled in some conflict of his own....he still has a score to settle with Xellos. This may open opportunities.]
[And the odder, more abstract: he had not come to care for Namine until after he'd begun protecting her. What would protecting the Asylum's resident's as whole lead to, if anything? He's curious.]