"Never saw any evidence in my research but that's the kind of thing they wouldn't evidence of lying around either." The question had him curious for some time and as much as he would have liked an answer, asking the source or the liason to the source just seemed like a bad idea.
"Things were only simple at the beginning. The last two years I was there, before I took off for the other side of the world and met you, those were never simple. I knew what I had to do to get ahead, well aware of what went on around me. Some things, didn't have a problem. Others, the shower never felt hot enough to wash away the kind of dirty I was feeling. But I did it because I wanted what it would bring me. When I went on my own, came to you, things still weren't simple but at least I was the one calling the shots."
He probably wouldn't know simple if it kicked his ass. That just wasn't the way things worked if you were trying to get anywhere above where the world wanted you to stay. "Yes I am. Thought we were talking like old acquaintances, not competitors."