[ It's something he'd readily agree on, at this point in his life. He'd always found the neverending scrabbling for survival and power to be tedious on some level - he had never been an ambitious person - but the days where he might have once said that someone was drowlike as a compliment are far behind him now.

He taps his finger against his chin again, before lowering his hand. ] That is true. It would be ideal to have samples of the raw ingredients to study whether it is innate or a product of environment, but I imagine that procuring them would be its own battle. [ It's expensive enough just to buy the poison by itself. Black market prices, man. ]

...I cannot argue with that. [ He shrugs, and goes back to sipping his own drink. It's logical enough, even if he doesn't particularly see the point. ]