[ hmm... ]

Sounds a little bit like your home, only somehow worse, because I'm sure they find a way to make it all that much more obnoxious.

[ it is difficult to say. after all, the idea of playing a grand game and undermining others does sound like a fascinating challenge...

...but not if it's with the French, even the alternate universe ones. ]

There are worse things to do, I guess. Though, I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't mind a drink right about now.

[ though unlike Dorian, he doesn't drink all that much. or, at least not in comparison to Russians. ]

Of course, this might all be another simulation.