[ Noticing details. Gathering information. Waiting until the right time to put it together and use it? Will can respect that sort of vigilance, even when it's pointed in his direction.

Is he aware it's happening in this moment? Hard to tell. If he is, it doesn't seem to worry him, as if he'd expect nothing less. Perhaps even finds it flattering.

But for now...]

Interesting. [ He says in a genuinely thoughtful tone. ] I wonder if our host has designed their selection process around those who appear to have no better options.

In most cases, it would be a built in mechanism to engender positive opinions of being kidnapped.

[ It isn't Will's intent to stir up Carver's already healthy reserves of paranoia. But it would be foolish, at least in these initial hours, to ignore that appears to be a curious coincidence. Will might not labor under the same level of distrust as Carver, but it is a big, glaring question.

Does anyone truly believe they were randomly chosen? ]