[he does appreciate a lack of obvious judgement. he remembers Tek's various privileges very well.]

That, and property is very expensive.

[he looks thoughtfully up at nothing, curling his hands around his cup, tapping his lovely nails in a line down the side.]

The ironic thing is that this used to be a front for my other business... I only resold things that other people brought me. But then, business would get slow, and I was practically bedridden at the time, so I started sewing things together to stave off my own crippling boredom.