[it's an interesting take on things. it doesn't really align at all with the kind of person he actually is or wants to be, but alvin isn't about to offer up that information.

it wouldn't be beneficial to him at all to directly contradict her perceptions, so he'll just work with it in the way he does.]

Wouldn't call it a matter of "care" or "not care." Money talks, and I had jobs to do. You don't make a living as a mercenary by taking sides.

[even if it slowly destroys him from the inside.]