@glaciialis (continued from x)
Jin is quiet at first, only holding a hand up to signal the man who stood guard near the doorway-- the hooded ex Shinigami, Maki Ichinose--to bring him something. What Jin is then handed, is a pack of cigarettes, and after silently dismissing Ichinose back to their position, he peels open the pack and begins loosening one of the nicotine-laden cylinders within.
"That does sound like your mother, in many respects," Jin smoothly replies, while fixing the now loosed cigarette to his lips, "not that I fault you for embracing those 'lessons', I applaud it actually," how couldn't Jin applaud it, lying, cheating, stealing, and similar acts were things he was guilty of countless times throughout his life, and would definitely be guilty of in the future, "honor is often one of many things that will assure you defeat or death in this world of ours."
Jin, producing that silver, symbol encrusted lighter Sylvia would have seen before, then sparks from it a flame that wasn't unlike the fire raging in the nearby fireplace, only on a much smaller scale.
"I've seen you working a few of those lessons on individuals within our alliance," Jin moves the tip of his cigarette into the lighter's flame, smoke immediately pluming forth, "you may not be the temptress your mother was at times, but you're quite the deceiver still, with how easily you have wrapped a select few around your fingers."
Jin, while drawing in smoke from his cigarette and then blowing it out to his left, peers at Sylvia, his crimson eyes giving back the light of the fireplace like coals.
"Again, I'm not faulting you, or judging, at the end of the day I frankly don't care what you get into with others in our alliance. How you seek to use people or string them along is your business and their folly, if they are foolish enough to be caught in any webs you weave."
Jin smirks, and moves the cigarette away from his face, clutching it betwixt his fingers, before adding, with a bit of menace, "there's an exception, however, that I want to make clear; a line in the sand, if you will."
Jin, briefly breaking away from whatever he wished to discuss, asks, in an affably-sounding manner, "did you want anything to eat, or drink, by the way? I could have Ichinose fetch it for you from the kitchens."
