Except the last time she got overly interested in anyone's investigations, she'd ended up having to fake her own death twice while stringing along not one, not two, but three geniuses, and had only narrowly missed (not through lack of trying) bringing the nation to its knees.
Well. Different worlds. Different situations. If he's going to act- and he seems like that sort- he's going to cause a stir; if there's going to be trouble, she'll have to back the winning side.
That and there's something interesting about his already-apparent sympathies. She's calculating, she knows that, maybe even cold, but she's far from unsympathetic, in her own way. She doesn't want to save the world, though. People who do generally end up hurting themselves in the process.
"But you try, I think," she says thoughtfully, not taking her eyes off him.
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Except the last time she got overly interested in anyone's investigations, she'd ended up having to fake her own death twice while stringing along not one, not two, but three geniuses, and had only narrowly missed (not through lack of trying) bringing the nation to its knees.
Well. Different worlds. Different situations. If he's going to act- and he seems like that sort- he's going to cause a stir; if there's going to be trouble, she'll have to back the winning side.
That and there's something interesting about his already-apparent sympathies. She's calculating, she knows that, maybe even cold, but she's far from unsympathetic, in her own way. She doesn't want to save the world, though. People who do generally end up hurting themselves in the process.
"But you try, I think," she says thoughtfully, not taking her eyes off him.