[If there’s a willful need to ignore the existence of any kind of pause, any kind of hesitance, Connor embodies it. I was afraid you were going to say something like that. The sentiment is something that he’d rather not comment on, but obligation pulls at his tongue, and he remarks regardless.]

It’s necessary. Finding out the cause of the uptick in deviancy is imperative — all there is to work with thus far is… insubstantial explanations of ‘ideas being like viruses’.

[A concept spoken like it obviously wasn’t something originated by him.]

Her name is North. Are you familiar with her? She’s only recently arrived.