[A bold creature. Instinctively attempting to hide his innermost thoughts flickering across his face at these deductions, Isaac puts on a flippant, theatrical performance instead, showing amusement, cool, haughty disdain, and astonishment, glancing aside at times as if someone beside him were being analyzed. Listening patiently, he decides neither to correct or deny these claims.]

Oh? And yet it seems you now pretend rather doggedly to understand me and what it is I do. [He answers at last, evenly, as if unfazed.]

Although your interest in me is most flattering, it changes nothing. If only you applied your mind to... other concerns, you would be thrust back into the freezing cold whence you came... as you so desire.