[ As always, Sampo leverages what's convenient to him. Now, they're level. Back at the bar, he'd claimed to be worldlier. They might only be at two encounters, but there's a reoccurring trend here that Elysium refuses to rise up to and acknowledge.

Instead, he cuts through to the crux of the matter—they're throwing aside feigned naivety. ]

Why don't you, then? [ There's a loftier air about him, mouth curving almost dangerously in constast to Sampo's own. ] So many actors out there… but none of them are me.

[ Neither will they be Sampo, but he hadn't been the one to hold on. It's incredible, really, the amount of confidence he's able to exude through his demeanour alone. ]

Has anyone else managed to starstruck you as I have?

[ A rhetoric question. Their dizzyingly fast progression wouldn't have been possible otherwise. ]