[Without understanding just what Riddler intends, Vrenille does understand it. He understands, first, that it's him--Riddler, and not Ed--speaking now. And he understands that the promise...the promise isn't a promise of nothing. It's not a promise about the absence of a reprisal.
He understands something else, too, which is that he's the one who's set this in motion. Not alone, of course, and Ed would surely have learned it all sooner or later. But for it to happen just this way? It took his hand--what he began with the gesture of picking up his phone. He could feign or front innocence, ignorance, but it would be a lie.
Wisdom, now, would probably be on the side of letting this all run its course, extricating himself, standing back at safe distance. Whatever Riddler's going to do, Vrenille's pretty sure it will be quite the dangerous game. But where, when it came to dealing with Tim, he tried to reel him in, keep a modicum of civility about the whole thing, this time he attempts no such thing. Maybe he's playing with quite a bit of fire in what he says, after a pause.]
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He understands something else, too, which is that he's the one who's set this in motion. Not alone, of course, and Ed would surely have learned it all sooner or later. But for it to happen just this way? It took his hand--what he began with the gesture of picking up his phone. He could feign or front innocence, ignorance, but it would be a lie.
Wisdom, now, would probably be on the side of letting this all run its course, extricating himself, standing back at safe distance. Whatever Riddler's going to do, Vrenille's pretty sure it will be quite the dangerous game. But where, when it came to dealing with Tim, he tried to reel him in, keep a modicum of civility about the whole thing, this time he attempts no such thing. Maybe he's playing with quite a bit of fire in what he says, after a pause.]
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