"It has nothing to do with thinking highly of myself. It has everything to do with being considered the man on the inside for both of them at once and being taken advantage of as a well placed tool to destroy the other side. It is not enough to work on the beauty of their own garden if there is anything remotely like it." He took another sip of water, eyebrows furrowed and his ears flat against his head. Offering him a job had a certain cold logic to it now that it hadn't had before.

It did make the decision easier. It would have been nice to sit and bask in the beauty of the resturaunt without paying his soul for it, but it was not enough to get involved in the direct middle of that sort of war.