He shrugs. "He's an ass," he says bluntly enough. "But that seems to be what Hadyn's into, given his other close relationships." He's thinking Julien more than Sieben, really, though they both qualify.

"Perhaps," he said, though, with a raised eyebrow. "Do you plan to groom Helena into a pawn sometime soon?" He doubted it, but he could be wrong. Clive and Helena and Jeremy hadn't grown up constantly being pawns, after all.