[....did the high-standing Company executive just apologise? To him?
There's an overlong moment of silence as Giovanni digests this, swallows it down, eyes slightly narrowed and expression showing the slightest signs of confusion before it bleeds out again onto that perfect blankness from moments before. Well, this is different. Unexpected, and it's this unexpectedness that leaves him feeling vaguely discomforted, this deviation from the usual script of how these kinds of assignments tend to go. He's had the occasional instance of someone deigning to act almost friendly with him, a pretense at shared humanity as a way to ally fear over what they've allowed into their personal space, or perhaps even as an attempt to assuage their guilt over what he is, what the Company has made of him. Nothing genuine, he's sure. An apology, though-- this is a first.
It's only a matter of seconds before he recovers his professional poise, shakes his head.]
Security detail. You're in need of a bodyguard.
[Outside of that, he hasn't the faintest idea. Why you requested him specifically eludes him entirely, something he chalks up to his excellent track record and little else.]
no subject
There's an overlong moment of silence as Giovanni digests this, swallows it down, eyes slightly narrowed and expression showing the slightest signs of confusion before it bleeds out again onto that perfect blankness from moments before. Well, this is different. Unexpected, and it's this unexpectedness that leaves him feeling vaguely discomforted, this deviation from the usual script of how these kinds of assignments tend to go. He's had the occasional instance of someone deigning to act almost friendly with him, a pretense at shared humanity as a way to ally fear over what they've allowed into their personal space, or perhaps even as an attempt to assuage their guilt over what he is, what the Company has made of him. Nothing genuine, he's sure. An apology, though-- this is a first.
It's only a matter of seconds before he recovers his professional poise, shakes his head.]
Security detail. You're in need of a bodyguard.
[Outside of that, he hasn't the faintest idea. Why you requested him specifically eludes him entirely, something he chalks up to his excellent track record and little else.]