[Palamedes tuts, dropping his hand back down to fiddling with the leaf he's picked off the plant. What a shame, that this Viktor fellow has integrity... No, it's quite good and funny that he understood the nerdy academic joke enough to follow it up, color Palamedes impressed. Is the bar low for intellectual humor? Absolutely not, it's sky-high.]

You'd be surprised. Or maybe you wouldn't— [A slight cant of his head as he gives Viktor a scrutinizing-but-amicably look,] I get the strange feeling you've read your fair share of warring footnotes.

[Academics, biased? At each other?? Never!]

That said, sure, I'll accept those terms: Treason. [brightly! woo!!] It's a stretch, but I'll give them that.