He couldn't help but chuckle as she burst into a fountain of information. Most of what he already thought would happen, and some ideas that have occurred to him before but he was too much of a loner for trying to pull them off himself. "First visit here, whilst some others have already started on their second or even fourth visit to the mansion. I didn't so much as find this place as it found me, as I was lost at sea for a week before running aground a day's walk away from the mansion. As for what I'm doing here, I have not the slightest clue other than getting what information that I can manage." He walks down a little farther and stops to look at the next trophy case. Her mentioning of forming a group who would stand together seems like a good idea in his mind, but then again so did fire breathing in a human form for the first time. "Don't worry about talking too much, worry more about telling someone you barely know too much instead. I'd be alright with allying myself to a group if I found the cause suitable," he says before turning his head to look into her eyes. "But I'll have to take a rain check on your offer. More often than not, I tend to ally myself with the wrong group before figuring out what their motives are. Also what do you mean by 'getting the upper hand'? Upper hand in what?"