I thought we already established I don't have friends. [Idia replies dryly, ignoring that comment about the tail, or the physical contact. Idia tries to avoid the overly touchy people around the train, he can't always, but he does his best to stay away from making contact with others.] It's just how things work in my world, nothing is free. [And given the chance anything and everything will be used against you for someone else to get ahead.]

If you're not going to complain about it, then I won't either. Don't say I didn't offer you the chance. [He won't be pleased if this comes back to bite him... but wouldn't be surprised either. It also doesn't help he has no clue what Jingyi would be interested in as payment.

Oh!] Oh, I guess, um, well, since with what happened and being stuck here... [Thanks for that brief moment of hope only for it to be crushed, train.] We could look into what we had briefly spoke about, using qi in a technological sense. I do always need more projects. [Idia does have one started in the works right now, as well as some few fun ones just for the sake of it, but this qi could be far more interesting in a long reaching manner.]