Well, so far as Evangeline's plans went it just looked increasingly like she was going to end up babysitting Chise, but she was hardly about to admit that to just about the only person here who seemed willing to take her on her word that she was a first-class villain. Chise kept talking like she was some sort of barely-controllable superweapon under the idiot girl so with the right spin she probably could have but it was, on the whole, entirely too much trouble. And whatever else she was Chise was just embarrassing by nature.

Evangeline looked at the seat he'd patted distastefully- the gesture struck her as far too ingratiating- but took it. "It's just boring during the day and most of the people here are pretty annoying," she said before moving on to his questions. "Something useful came out of that mess last night, at least," she said, because that much was true. "What happened with yours?"

She sounded vaguely interested, but far from sympathetic. Evangeline did not do sympathy, especially when she'd hadn't thought his plan had stood much of a chance in the first place. He'd gotten off to a poor start with those public arguments over his motives and there was only so much you could do with the bottom of the barrel in a closed system like this anyway, no matter how powerful a mind you directed them with.