[The sudden addition of video to what has til now been an audio feed is exceptionally interesting, and there's a bit of a delay as Alba carefully copies down what names he could actually read.]
Are you certain you won't consider?
[Unseen, the professor steeples his fingers. Well, if everyone's being terribly ... dramatic, these past days, he could get away with it, surely. After all, what's a little blackmail to these people? There's only the slightest shifts of tone, from friendly and curious to something a little more dangerous. If anyone ever just oozed 'snake', this guy would definitely be it.]
It would be a shame if your client list were to ... get out into public, wouldn't it? All those people, trusting you to stay silent. Trusting you to build a better future as a new species. What might happen to them if people found out before they were safely superior..?
[Audio]
Are you certain you won't consider?
[Unseen, the professor steeples his fingers. Well, if everyone's being terribly ... dramatic, these past days, he could get away with it, surely. After all, what's a little blackmail to these people? There's only the slightest shifts of tone, from friendly and curious to something a little more dangerous. If anyone ever just oozed 'snake', this guy would definitely be it.]
It would be a shame if your client list were to ... get out into public, wouldn't it? All those people, trusting you to stay silent. Trusting you to build a better future as a new species. What might happen to them if people found out before they were safely superior..?