Believe you me, if I were to stand you up, I wouldn't have agreed to visit you today.

[ He said it lightly, but matter of fact. He noted something...off about the boy, something to observe. Maybe he could make light of it.

Ah, but the boy was a mind reader, wasn't he? He likely already knew of the question, so Shade let it sit there, more of an experiment than anything else. ]

And I notice you did not leave me to enter and make friends with the lovely degenerates in here.