Sitting beside Christian, Iris rested her fists on her knees and waited silently for his evaluation. After a few minutes, he finally spoke.
"You know, it's not that your report wasn't interesting, but it's mostly about countries and major events. Those things might have seemed fascinating before, but now they just lack something."
"People are dying. Well, they always do."
"It may sound insensitive or even cruel, but I can't empathize with numbers."
"So, instead of summarizing the biggest events, if you told me something more insignificant, something about the tragic or difficult story of an individual, I probably would have been more invested."
Actually, it wasn't as though Iris had told him nothing that interested him.
The teleportation gates, for example, had caught his attention. Connecting an entire country through them, and eventually perhaps even the entire Earth, was something he would genuinely like to accomplish.
He already had the necessary knowledge from Anastasia.
