"It sounds like you need an outside perspective," he suggests. "The one thing people find hardest is to deal with themselves. Doctors still need a doctor, and so on. A back and forth with someone who's sharp enough to give you new considerations might even help you harness your… talent."

Which would be the ideal situation, surely. He might not be offering himself (they're still strangers, after all), but he's silently pleased to see someone who sees their own flaws and seeks to use them to their advantage. It's the smarter way of dealing with them, even if it isn't 'good'.

Reynard stops dead halfway through taking a sip to stare very intensely at this new acquaintance. "Loki? Loki as in 'conveniently appropriately named after the god' or… Loki, as in silver-tongued Loptr himself?"