Mm, I'll consider it. [It's not flippantly said, about the closest thing to a serious response he can choose to give for Robin's own self-awareness.

As far as his view on Solomon?]

I'd be disappointed if it was. You seem too broad with your thinking to resort to that out of anything but pettiness, perhaps. But it doesn't match what I've seen of you so far.

[He can see how that smile travels, a statement of body language without mirth, without firm connection - just empty enough to be polite and only polite. He's worn such a smile before, and knows it's not always an invitation to be challenged.]

Mn. I'd also like to think that much. But circumstance and consequences, choice and fate, whether our own or from others... they lead us as they will sometimes.

Loneliness is a rather large enemy to conquer the longer life goes on, isn't it?